Advertisement Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka called for the Pacific Ocean to be an “Ocean of Peace” amid a visit to Australia this week in which he seemed to edge Fiji further away from China. Rabuka, a former senior military commander who led two coups in 1987, said in a speech at the Lowy Institute … Read more
Advertisement As with the inaugural summit last year, the second U.S.-Pacific Islands summit in Washington, D.C., featured a raft of initiatives with attached dollar signs and U.S. government involvement from President Joe Biden down. The message of this summit, in line with Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s message to the Pacific Islands Forum leaders in … Read more
Advertisement The Pacific Islands are home to a wealth of traditional and cultural knowledge about climate adaptation, and it is a place where communities have long been enacting local solutions to combat the impacts of climate change and build resilience. Talanoa is a term used across many Pacific Islands countries that refers to an inclusive … Read more