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Vanuatu delays $330M Australia security pact over Chinese funding concerns

Vanuatu is not ready to sign a security and economic treaty with Australia due to concerns about potential restrictions on securing infrastructure funding from other countries

The Independent UK

With global powers barred, can Pacific nations find unity at their annual summit?

It’s been a testing time for Pacific regional unity.

The Conversation

Nauru agrees to give Australia a veto right over a range of pacts with third nations including China

Australia has announced a multimillion-dollar agreement with Nauru that gives Australia a veto right over a range of pacts the tiny Pacific atoll might want to enter with third countries including China

The Independent UK

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Climate action call as King presides over leaders meet

Australia and wealthier Commonwealth nations are being told to pay the rent on climate action as the Pacific faces an existential threat from rising sea levels.

AAP

Pacific charm offensive as China muscles on policing

Senior Australian ministers are visiting three Pacific island nations as Canberra works to boost defence partnerships and shut China out of regional policing.

AAP

Earthquake rattles opening day of PIF summit in Tonga

Tonga has been backed to host a successful Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting despite the summit ballooning in size and scale.

AAP

Pacific Islands leaders to meet as region faces ‘polycrisis’ of threats

Climate change will top the agenda as leaders of 18 nations meet in Tonga from August 26.

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New economic prospects needed for 'chameleon' Nauru

The tiny Republic of Nauru is highly dependent on revenue from Australia. Could it follow Tuvalu and sign a comprehensive treaty with Canberra?

AAP

Newly elected prime minister in Solomon Islands is likely to keep close China ties

Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China.

WEKU

Papua New Guinea’s PM to address Australian parliament as Pacific security race with China builds

Anthony Albanese and James Marape to meet on Thursday amid rising domestic pressures on the PNG leader

The Guardian - AU

Pacific Islands Forum: four leaders fail to attend as China-US rivalry takes centre stage

The US has been racing to reopen embassies and deepen links with Pacific countries in wake of Solomon Islands security pact with China

The Guardian - AU

Biden pledges more aid to Pacific islands to counter growing Chinese influence

Leaders of Pacific island states have been given star treatment in Washington but Chinese influence is the spectre at the feast

The Guardian - US

Biden seeks to win over Pacific leaders as Solomon Islands turns back on talks

‘Historic’ summit seen as part of effort to counter Beijing in the region as Pacific leaders seek more support on climate change

The Guardian - AU

Australia tells big development banks to ‘lift their game’ in the Pacific

There are concerns the World Bank and ADB are giving contracts to low-price bidders who then demand more when budgets blow out

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Vanuatu hospital staff using pen and paper after cyber attack that crippled public sector

Almost a month after a ransomware attack on Vanuatu's government, the country's public service remains crippled and hospital staff have resorted to using pen and paper.

The Guardian - AU

Extreme weather fuels government oppression in island nations, study finds

The increased frequency of natural disasters could lead to further rise in autocracies, according to new research

The Independent UK

Report: China targets 2 diplomatic allies with Pacific aid

The Lowy Institute reports Beijing is targeting its Pacific aid to new diplomatic allies Solomon Islands and Kiribati while Chinese financial support across the region continues to decline

ABC News

Solomon Islands refusing to sign 11-point declaration at historic Pacific-US meeting

Solomon Islands signals it won't sign on to an 11-point declaration negotiated by the United States and Pacific Island nations this week, dealing a blow to the White House ahead of a high-profile presidential summit with Pacific leaders in Washington.

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