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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 implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes chapters on growing great power competition in the region, as well as the response to China's rise by the US and its Western allies and the island countries themselves. Other chapters examine key dimensions of China's Pacific engagement, including Beijing's programs of aid and diplomacy, as well as the massive investments of the Belt and Road Initiative. The impact of China's rivalry for recognition with Taiwan is examined, and several chapters analyse Chinese communities in the Pacific, and their relationships with local societies. The China Alternative provides ample material for informed judgements about the ability of island leaders to maintain their agency in the changing regional order, as well as other issues of significance to the peoples of the region.

It is important to see China's activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing's recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China's policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing world, a major work in progress that involves similar initiatives in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. This groundbreaking study of China's "soft power" initiatives in these countries offers, for the first time, the diverse perspectives of scholars and diplomats from Oceania, North American, China, and Japan. It explores such issues as regional competition for diplomatic and economic ties between Taiwan and China, the role of overseas Chinese in developing these relationships, and various analyses of the benefits and drawbacks of China's growing presence in Oceania. In addition, the reader obtains a rare review of the Japanese response to China's role in Oceania, presented by Japan's leading scholar of the Pacific region

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 implications for regional actors. The China Alternative includes chapters on growing great power competition in the region, as well as the response to China's rise by the US and its Western allies and the island countries themselves. Other chapters examine key dimensions of China's Pacific engagement, including Beijing's programs of aid and diplomacy, as well as the massive investments of the Belt and Road Initiative. The impact of China's rivalry for recognition with Taiwan is examined, and several chapters analyse Chinese communities in the Pacific, and their relationships with local societies. The China Alternative provides ample material for informed judgements about the ability of island leaders to maintain their agency in the changing regional order, as well as other issues of significance to the peoples of the region.

Explores the historical & contemporary circumstances that have created political unrest in the Pacific, including the legacies of colonial rule, the aftereffects of Cold War international politics, globalization, & the policies of existing island governments. Private sector development benefits foreign investors & already established local businessmen, & emphasis is on global profit rather than national development. The gap between rich & poor is widening, & in many places, the influx of ethnic groups has left natives in the minority & politically & economically marginalized. In Fiji, the 1999 election victory of a multiracial party, which campaigned for social & economic reforms, was offset by the violent overthrow of this government in May 2000. The coup confronted the Indo-Fijian government & the chief-led structure that has helped lead Fiji over the past 100 years. 18 References. L. A. Hoffman

Asia Pacific studies in an age of global modernity / Arif Dirlik -- Remapping area knowledge / Neil Smith -- Locating Asia-Pacific / Martin W. Lewis -- The evolution of area studies in Japan / Lonny Carlile -- The development of Asia Pacific studies / Jeremy Eades -- For or before an Asian Pacific studies agenda? / Teresia Teaiwa -- People, politics, policy / Lily Kong -- Traveling cultures / T.C. Chang, Jon Goss and Chris Yano -- Chinatown and the virtual classroom in Singapore and Hawaiʻi / Lisa Law and Jon Goss -- Salaam Mānoa, aloha Mindanao / Conrado Balatbat ... [et al.] -- E-learning and the re-making of Pacific studies / Peter Hempenstall, Robert Nicole, and Terence Wesley-Smith -- Remaking Asia Pacific studies / Ricardo Trimillos

Introduction: The Return of Great Power Competition / Terence Wesley-Smith and Graeme Smith -- 1. Mapping the Blue Pacific in a Changing Regional Order / Tarcisius Kabutaulaka -- 2. A New Cold War? Implications for the Pacific Islands / Terence Wesley-Smith -- 3. Australia's Response to China in the Pacific: From Alert to Alarmed / Merriden Varrall -- 4. China's Impact on New Zealand Foreign Policy in the Pacific: The Pacific Reset / Iati Iati -- 5. Associations Freely Chosen: New Geopolitics in the North Pacific / Gerard A. Finin -- 6. Stable, Democratic and Western: China and French Colonialism in the Pacific / Nic Maclellan -- 7. Reevaluation of China's Engagement in the Pacific Islands / Zhou Fangyin -- 8. Domestic Political Reforms and China's Diplomacy in the Pacific: The Case of Foreign Aid / Denghua Zhang -- 9. A Search for Coherence: The Belt and Road Initiative in the Pacific Islands / Henryk Szadziewski -- 10. Solomon Islands' Foreign Policy Dilemma and the Switch from Taiwan to China / Transform Aqorau -- 11. We're Not Indigenous. We're Just, We're Us': Pacific Perspectives on Taiwan's Austronesian Diplomacy / Jessica Marinaccio -- 12. Building a Strategic Partnership: Fiji-China Relations Since 2008 / Sandra Tarte -- 13. Bridging the Belt and Road Initiative in Papua New Guinea / Sarah O'Dowd -- 14. The Shifting Fate of China's Pacific Diaspora / Fei Sheng and Graeme Smith -- 15. On-the-Ground Tensions with Chinese Traders in Papua New Guinea / Patrick Matbob -- 16. Overseas Chinese, Soft Power and China's People-to-People Diplomacy in Timor-Leste / Laurentina 'Mica' Barreto Soares.

The Classroom as a Metaphorical Canoe: Cooperative Learning in Pacific Studies -- For or Before an Asia Pacific Studies Agenda: Specifying Pacific Studies -- Preparation for Deep Learning: A Reflection on "Teaching" Pacific Studies in the Pacific -- Charting Pacific (Studies) Waters: Evidence of Teaching and Learning -- Lo(o)sing the Edge -- AmneSIA -- On Analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context -- Microwomen: US Colonialism and Micronesian Women Activists -- bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans -- Articulated Cultures: Militarism and Masculinities in Fiji during the Mid-1990s -- What Makes Fiji Women Soldiers? Context, Context, Context -- The Articulated Limb: Theorizing Indigenous Pacific Participation in the Military-Industrial Complex -- How Does Change Happen? -- Yaqona/Yagoqu: Roots and Routes of a Displaced Native Scholarship from a Lazy Native -- Te Onauti -- The Ancestors We Get to Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny -- Modern Life, Primitive Thoughts -- Fear of an Estuary.

It is important to see China's activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing's recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China's policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the developing world, a major work in progress that involves similar initiatives in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. This groundbreaking study of China's "soft power" initiatives in these countries offers, for the first time, the diverse perspectives of scholars and diplomats from Oceania, North American, China, and Japan. It explores such issues as regional competition for diplomatic and economic ties between Taiwan and China, the role of overseas Chinese in developing these relationships, and various analyses of the benefits and drawbacks of China's growing presence in Oceania. In addition, the reader obtains a rare review of the Japanese response to China's role in Oceania, presented by Japan's leading scholar of the Pacific region