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South Pacific Islands: China-South Pacific Relations

This research guide focuses on the important issues regarding the South Pacific Islands and international affairs. Books, journal articles, reports, websites, and more included in this guide offer information and insight into these issues.

Books

The Pacific Islands in China's Grand Strategy by Jian Yang
Call Number: DU68.C6 Y36 2011
ISBN: 9780230113237
Publication Date: 2011-11-03

China's Belt and Road Initiative

Books

The Belt and Road Initiative Looks East: Political Implications of China’s Economic Forays in the Caribbean and the South Pacific by William Oosterveld, et al.
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2018

Journal Articles/Reports

Annual Report on Development of Oceania : China's 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Initiative and the South Pacific Countries (2014-2015)
Blue Book of Oceania, 2014-2015.
A Road to Island Sovereignty and Empowerment? Fiji's Aims Within the Belt and Road Initiative
Island Studies Journal, Vol. 15, iss. 2, 2020.

Online Articles/Reports

The Belt and Road Initiative in Oceania: Understanding the People’s Republic of China’s Strategic Interests and Engagement in the Pacific
CFE-DM, 2022.
China's Belt & Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands
Silk Road Briefing, 2019.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative Divides the Pacific
Global Voices, 2023.
Ocean of Debt? Belt and Road and Debt Diplomacy in the Pacific
Lowy Institute, 2019.

China's Blue Economy Initiatives

China's Real Ambitions in the South Pacific
Maritime Executive, 2022.

China-South Pacific Relations 2002-2012 (Hu Jiantao)

Journal Articles/Reports

Dragon in Paradise: China's Rising Star in Oceania
National Interest, June 2003.

Online Articles/Reports

China's Role in the Pacific Islands Region
DKIAPCSS, 2007.
China in Oceania
East-West Center, 2007.

China-South Pacific Relations 2012-- (Xi Jinping)

Journal Articles/Reports

The Blue Continent in the Eyes of the Dragon: Chinese News Media and Academic Representations of Pacific Island Countries
Dissertation, 2021.
China's Rise in Oceania: Issues and Perspectives
Pacific Affairs, 2013.
Oceania in the Foreign Policy of China
Outlines of Global Transformations, Politics, economics, Law; 2023.

Online Articles/Reports

China's Pacific Push Is Backfiring
RAND Commentary, 2022.
China in the Pacific Islands: Shaping a Community of Shared Future
China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, 2018.
China’s End Game for South Pacific and Why it Matters Now
VOA News, 2022.
China’s Influence on the Freely Associated States of the Northern Pacific
United States Institute of Peace, 2022.
A Fault Line in the Pacific
Foreign Affairs, 2022.
The Risks of China’s Ambitions in the South Pacific
Brookings Institute, 2020.

Other Resources

Key Databases

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