A Pacific Islands leader has called on the US and China to not bring adversarial competition to the region. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and deployed a steady stream of envoys to court island leaders.
“I think it’s important to understand that what our development partners may see as areas of national security, are not necessarily what we see as national security priorities,” he said.Many Pacific Island nations are debt-burdened, low-lying, vulnerable to rising sea levels and exposed to ever-stronger storms, droughts and floods fuelled by climate change.
“The Pacific Island countries are at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, a large proportion of it caused by the G-7 countries.” “For us in the Pacific, we’re already facing those climate impacts now. So the focus for us is on adaptation measures and financing for adaption.”
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