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South Pacific Islands: U.S. & PRC Recent Military-Strategic Engagement

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.

United States Engagement

Books

Renewed Engagement: U.S. Policy toward Pacific Island Nations: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Environment
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2010

Journal Articles/Reports

Pacific Islands Forum -- U.S. Engagement in the Pacific Islands
State Department Documents, Aug 2019.
U.S. To Intensify Outreach Efforts in the Pacific Islands: New Office, More Programs to Expand Engagement, State's Hughes Says
State Department Documents, 2007.

Online Articles/Reports

America's Strategy in Oceania: Time for a Better Approach
War on the Rocks, 2021.
Engaging the Pacific Islands Is No Longer About the Why, but About the How
Atlantic Council, 2022.
Pacific Engagement
RAND, 2018.
U.S. Engagement in the Pacific Islands: 2022 Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders
INDOPACOM, 2022.

Video-- The Brief: U.S. Engagement in the Pacific Islands (2020 Pacific Pledge)

U.S. Department of State

Video-- The Next Era of U.S.-Pacific Islands Engagement

United States Institute of Peace.

People's Republic of China Engagement

Journal Articles/Reports

China's Engagement in the Pacific Islands: Implications for the United States
Special Commission Reports, June 2018.
Rising Chinese Influence in the South Pacific: Beijing's “Island Fever”
Asian Survey, Vol. 47, no. 2, 2007.

Online Articles/Reports

China's Military Engagement with the Pacific Island Countries
Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, 2020.
China’s Engagement in the Pacific Islands: Implications for the United States
U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission, 2018.
China’s Pacific Plan Seen as Regional Strategic Game-Changer
Ap News, 2022.
China’s Search for a Permanent Military Presence in the Pacific Islands
United States Institute of Peace, 2022.
China’s Troubling New Military Strategy Is Coming Into View
The Atlantic, 2022.

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Subjects: Area Studies

Tags: asia, asia-pacific, china relations, oceania, pacific islands, south pacific, U.S. relations