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The prime minister’s visit comes after a fractious year between the two countries, including tensions over China’s role in the Pacific and the postponed election in Solomon Islands.
For centuries, Pacific Islands have been raided by mining interests with little to show for it. Harnessing their enormous green mineral wealth must be done justly.
For Pacific Islands, climate change trumps all other threats to their security. While they welcome Australia’s new emission targets, this is an issue of survival that demands greater ambition.
This week, Austalia began a climate pivot on its relationship with the region. Fossil fuels are out and exporting green energy and green manufacturing techniques are in.
World leaders should worry about the security risks and economic balance of power with China.
While Australia worries about Chinese influence, Pacific nations are more worried about climate change. By boosting climate ambition, Australia could be the region’s security partner of choice.
Australians should accept that Pacific island countries will engage with other countries, and instead recognise the gaps in our defence, development and diplomatic relationships with the region.
The foreign minister’s trip to Solomon Islands was a difficult one, but while there was no big “win”, it also did not make things worse.
A battle for influence between the US and China in the region, is giving Pacific island states more influence.
Pacific island nations are working to secure their people and infrastructure from cyber attacks.
China seeks two main things from the region – one diplomatic and one strategic.
Before we work ourselves into a frenzy over Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s visit to Solomon Islands, it is worth pausing for breath.
This election was a perfect storm for the Coalition, with fires, floods and international criticism dialing up the pressure for climate action. In the end, Australia made the decision for them.
To repair our relationship with the Pacific, the new government must make swift decisions addressing the climate emergency. But that’s just the starting point.
We talk about the Pacific ‘neighbourhood’, but too often Australia’s approach to the region has been of saying what we’re going to do, rather than how – and listening to the people it most affects.
A leaked draft security agreement seemingly proves Chinese spending ‘bought’ enough influence to get the Solomon Islands government. But such an interpretation misses two key issues.
Kava is not commonly used in Australia. But that will change and we need to keep an eye on what happens next.
Severe coastal flooding inundated islands in the Pacific last week, including the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It’s a taste of things to come.
If Australia plans to sell as much of its fossil fuels as possible, the least it can do is help us in Kiribati survive the rising seas.
Principais colaboradores
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Professor of Geography, School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University., Georgetown University
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Geography and Social Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Development Studies, Massey University
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Massey University
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Professor of International Security, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow, Griffith University
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Reader of Law, Newcastle University
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Researcher, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate professor, Griffith University
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Director, Master of International Relations, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Scientia Professor and Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney
