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PacNet Commentary

A weekly publication generated from a network of policy research institutes designed to facilitate communication on timely events in the region and to serve as a vehicle for sharing research results and analyses.

PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #75 – Fiji’s management of geostrategic competition in 2023: How not to choose
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September 26, 2023 As previously highlighted, the new Fijian prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka set a new course for Fiji’s domestic and foreign policies, including a seeming turn from China toward so-called traditional allies, …
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #74 – Fiji’s management of geostrategic competition in 2023: Scaling back on China?
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September 25, 2023 On Aug. 25, after a gathering of the Melanesian Spearhead Group in Vanuatu, Sitveni Rabuka, the Fijian prime minister, observed that China and the United States “are trying to polarize the Pacific into their…
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #73 – Comparative Connections Summary: September 2023
Comparative Connections Summary: May-August 2023   REGIONAL OVERVIEW Building Partnerships Amidst Major Power Competition BY RALPH COSSA, PACIFIC FORUM & BRAD GLOSSERMAN, TAMA UNIVERSITY CRS/PACIFIC FORUM Major power…
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #72 – How to build US-Japan-ROK trilateral cooperation on Taiwan
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September 13, 2023 This PacNet was developed as a part of the United States-Japan-Republic of Korea Trilateral Next-Generation Leaders Dialogue to encourage creative thinking about how this vital partnership can be fostered. For…
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #71 – To secure US-Japan-ROK gains from Camp David, bring South Korea to the Quad
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September 6, 2023 This PacNet was developed as a part of the United States-Japan-Republic of Korea Trilateral Next-Generation Leaders Dialogue to encourage creative thinking about how this vital partnership can be fostered. For …
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #70 – Taiwan’s spent nuclear fuel: A burden in a potential Taiwan Strait conflict
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September 1, 2023 The war in Ukraine has drawn concerns that a potential conflict may happen across the Taiwan Strait. In Ukraine, the attack and occupation of nuclear facilities, including the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (…
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #69 – China preaching autocracy to Africans shouldn’t surprise, but it won’t work
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August 29, 2023 On Aug. 21, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios’ Taipei-based China reporter, released a bombshell report about the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Tanzania that she alleges is ground zero in China’s …
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #68 – The Pacific: Great power politics threatens regional unity
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August 29, 2023 The Pacific Islands have consistently sought a stronger regional voice since the establishment of the Pacific Islands Forum in 1971, most recently manifesting in the Blue Pacific Continent. But now increased …
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #67 – Military challenges for Russia in the Indo-Pacific
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August 28, 2023 Russia faces four potential military problems in the Indo-Pacific: Vulnerability of the sea leg of its nuclear triad as part of the Pacific Fleet. Escalation of tensions around Japan’s territorial claims to the…
PacNet #13 – Keep an eye on North Korean cyber-crime as the Covid-19 spreads
PacNet #66 – US policy toward China: Three do’s and a don’t
August 22, 2023 Is war between the United States and China inevitable? This was the central question asked of panelists at the opening session of this year’s Asia-Pacific Roundtable in Kuala Lumpur. My answer was “No, it is …
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