The China Alternative : : Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands.

In this collection, 17 leading scholars based in Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Australia, New Zealand, the United States and China analyse key dimensions of the changing relationship between China and the Pacific Islands and explore the strategic, economic and diplomatic impl...

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Superior document:Pacific
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Place / Publishing House:Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2021.
©2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Pacific
Physical Description:1 online resource (520 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Opening Remarks
  • Introduction: The Return of Great Power Competition
  • 1. Mapping the Blue Pacific in a Changing Regional Order
  • 2. A New Cold War? Implications for the Pacific Islands
  • 3. Australia's Response to China in the Pacific: From Alert to Alarmed
  • 4. China's Impact on New Zealand Foreign Policy in the Pacific: The Pacific Reset
  • 5. Associations Freely Chosen: New Geopolitics in the North Pacific
  • 6. Stable, Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific
  • 7. A Reevaluation of China's Engagement in the Pacific Islands
  • 8. Domestic Political Reforms and China's Diplomacy in the Pacific: The Case of Foreign Aid
  • 9. A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands
  • 10. Solomon Islands' Foreign Policy Dilemma and the Switch from Taiwan to China
  • 11. 'We're Not Indigenous. We're Just, We're Us': Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan's Austronesian Diplomacy
  • 12. Building a Strategic Partnership: Fiji-China Relations Since 2008
  • 13. Bridging the Belt and Road Initiative in Papua New Guinea
  • 14. The Shifting Fate of China's Pacific Diaspora
  • 15. On-the-Ground Tensions with Chinese Traders in Papua New Guinea
  • 16. Overseas Chinese, Soft Power and China's People-to-People Diplomacy in Timor-Leste
  • Contributors.