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Whipps this week suggested that the wealthy countries seeking involvement in the region could open their wallets to finance
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“What are they doing together with us to partner to get a 100% renewable Pacific?” Whipps said.
Key facts
- Some of the 18 member countries and territories that make up the Pacific Islands Forum have populations in the low thousands or tens of thousands and were once known mostly as picture-perfect holiday
- We see examples of this where that consensus-based model, which is referred to as the Pacific Way, can sometimes lead to a bit of paralysis in taking action,” said Oliver Nobetau, Pacific Islands
- What are they doing together with us to partner to get a 100% renewable Pacific?” Whipps said
- Beijing has ramped up pressure on forum hosts to exclude Taipei’s envoys from the annual summit, a dispute that grew so fractious ahead of the 2025 event in Solomon Islands that all countries except
Summary
Far from New York or Davos, leaders of some of the world’s least populous states are meeting in a placid tropical archipelago with no traffic lights. Ahead of the summit officially opening Monday, the country’s president and other senior officials walked the main road around the island picking up trash. But beneath the distinctively Pacific character of the event, where matters unfold in their own unhurried time and decisions are made by consensus rather than by a vote, simmered a fraught and escalating geopolitical debate about who gets to shape the future of the vast ocean region. Powerful nations interested in the Pacific have raced in recent years to shore up alliances among its leaders, intensifying a contest for influence between China and the United States, Taiwan, and forum members Australia and New Zealand. “The Pacific is our home, not a theater for geopolitical competition,” Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr.