{"title":"A Reevaluation of China’s Engagement in the Pacific Islands","authors":"Fangyin Zhou","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1H45MKN.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1H45MKN.11","url":null,"abstract":"In the past few years, the development of relations between China and the Pacific Island countries has attracted the attention of some Western countries. To avoid taking a superficial view of the relationship between China and the Pacific Island countries, this chapter will analyse the development of and changes in their relations over the past decade and the driving forces behind these changes. The chapter discusses the development direction of China’s policy towards the Pacific Islands in the future and how China will seek balance in its relations with the Pacific Island countries and Australia and New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113956316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the Belt and Road Initiative in Papua New Guinea","authors":"Sarah O’Dowd","doi":"10.2307/J.CTV1H45MKN.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTV1H45MKN.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133665007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Cold War? Implications for the Pacific Islands","authors":"Terence A. Wesley-Smith","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"29 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115990343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stable, Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific","authors":"N. Maclellan","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121506863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Australia’s Response to China in the Pacific: From Alert to Alarmed","authors":"Merriden Varrall","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127384255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building a Strategic Partnership: Fiji–China Relations Since 2008","authors":"Sandra Tarte","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133327518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Overseas Chinese, Soft Power and China’s People-to-People Diplomacy in Timor-Leste","authors":"Laurentina ‘mica’ Barreto Soares","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117334268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands","authors":"Henryk Szadziewski","doi":"10.22459/ca.2021.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/ca.2021.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121406974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic Political Reforms and China’s Diplomacy in the Pacific: The Case of Foreign Aid","authors":"Denghua Zhang","doi":"10.22459/CA.2021.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/CA.2021.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134006442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Associations Freely Chosen: New Geopolitics in the North Pacific","authors":"G. Finin","doi":"10.22459/CA.2021.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22459/CA.2021.05","url":null,"abstract":"For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, America’s global leadership is being directly challenged. In Asia, blunt trade policies imposed upon China by the Trump administration had raised the spectre of a trade war. United States’ withdrawal from the critically important Paris Climate Agreement during the Trump years prompted widespread condemnation by the global community, particularly from Pacific Island nations. President Trump’s advocacy of unabashed US unilateralism also generated tensions with European allies, including close partners that for generations cooperated with the US in maintaining stability.","PeriodicalId":265596,"journal":{"name":"The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128036788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}