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Taylor\u2014more than well-placed to speak on regional affairs\u2014is concerned that Pacific \u201cunity is deeply challenged and undermined by the encroaching influence of competing geopolitical agendas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one side is the West and its \u201ctraditional, defence-centric understanding of security.\u201d On the other is China, which suffers from \u201ccultural tensions\u201d among Pacific audiences, stemming from its economically-charged regional business behaviours. Both are \u201cincompatible with Blue Pacific priorities and values,\u201d Taylor claims, entrenching \u201cdependency and militarization,\u201d while also running counter to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/2050strategy\/\">Blue Pacific<\/a> identity, which Taylor elevates as of \u201cparamount importance\u201d to the region between now and 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this two-part article, I respectfully offer another perspective\u2014a framework of opportunity that focuses on Pacific nations and citizens leveraging geostrategic agendas to realise sub-regional, national and community goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Great power competition offers a time for Pacific communities to think of these moments as <em>unprecedented<\/em> but not <em>threatening<\/em>. It could mean if realised, sustained moments for \u2018reverse statecraft\u2019\u2014Pacific nations channelling external geostrategic interests into local people-led outcomes, realising, in particular, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PIFS-2050-Strategy-Blue-Pacific-Continent-WEB-5Aug2022.pdf\">Strategic Pathways listed within the Blue Pacific Vision<\/a>. It could also see Pacific Island Countries (PICs) taking the lead in offsetting great power conflict through on-ground examples of \u2018strategic cooperation\u2019 between Beijing and Washington DC, especially through climate-change initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sense a framework would begin with three themes. The first \u2013 and most fundamental \u2013 is acknowledging values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Western values being regionally \u201cincompatible,\u201d Taylor observes that the language of a \u2018free and open\u2019 Pacific\u2014cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/the-interpreter\/free-open-indo-pacific-what-it-means-australia\">US Presidents<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/media\/address-to-the-australian-defence-college\">other Western leaders<\/a>\u2014can be used \u201cto bully and projects the United States as the leader of the free and open democratic order across a super-region from the United States to Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is this fair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PIFS-2050-Strategy-Blue-Pacific-Continent-WEB-5Aug2022.pdf\">Blue Pacific 2050 Strategy<\/a> clearly articulates shared Pacific values, which cover regional cooperation and combined commitment, through to pluralism, security, and democratic values and principles. Both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/transcript\/joint-press-conference-fijian-prime-minister-sitiveni-rabuka\">Pacific<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/07\/12\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-pacific-islands-forum\/\">Western<\/a> leaders call upon and cite similar themes when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/09\/25\/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-recognition-of-the-cook-islands-and-the-establishment-of-diplomatic-relations\/\">discussing<\/a> regional links. Indeed, the basis for Australia\u2019s pivotal 2016 Pacific \u2018Step up\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/media\/speech-launch-of-the-governments-foreign-policy-white-paper\">according<\/a> to Malcolm Turnbull, was not only a genuine offer for greater connectivity, integration and trade, but fundamentally driven by \u201cfreedom, democracy, the rule of law, mutual respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such sentiment, I feel, is not manufactured but animated by a reality that PICs, like Australia, the US and Great Britain, are proud democracies. Granted, the Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) deal was inked with security and the Pacific clearly in mind. But to exclusively look at AUKUS, at the expense of products like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pacific-Partnership-Strategy.pdf\">US Pacific Partnership Strategy<\/a>, does not give full thrust to the nature of what can emerge from a Pacific-led regionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This, I fear, is what Taylor has done\u2014over-emphasised a traditional security approach from Western nations while under-emphasising the non-security elements of such engagement, further leaving aside shared values-led commitments between the so-called West and PICs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had Taylor given space for such things, I sense her critique of \u201cincompatible\u201d Western values may not have been so sharp. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, for example, when laying the foundations for revamped Pacific efforts in early 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/what-does-united-states-need-its-south-pacific-strategy#_edn2\">spoke<\/a> firmly about \u201cauthentic engagement that speaks to the real needs of the islanders,\u201d and for the \u201cUS to include on the agenda items that Pacific countries have <em>identified as priorities for<\/em> <em>them<\/em> [italics mine].\u201d While tangible outputs have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3218353\/us-congress-debates-budget-pacific-island-nations-are-watching-concern\">slow<\/a> to materialise\u2014such as Kamala Harris\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/pacific-island-leaders-welcome-us-pledge-triple-funding-region-2022-07-13\/\">\u00ad\u00adpledge<\/a> to triple regional fisheries funding\u2014the emphasis on values is fundamental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same values-led relationships, frankly, cannot be said for Beijing, whose attempts Taylor acknowledges are chequered by perceptions of excessive commerciality. Soft power indices are never perfect measures of perception, but they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/the-role-of-soft-power-in-chinas-influence-in-the-pacific-islands\/\">have not been kind<\/a> to Beijing\u2019s attempts at influence in the region over the past few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the RAND Corporation\u2019s Derek Grossman more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2023\/06\/01\/china-south-pacific-oceania-solomon-islands-kiribati-papua-new-guinea-australia-new-zealand-geopolitics-military\/\">pointed<\/a> to the PRC\u2019s two \u201cunforced errors\u201d in its recent attempted 2022 \u2018step up\u2019\u2014the immediate concerns expressed by Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata\u2019afa over the draft US-Solomons Security Pact, as well as Beijing\u2019s desire to work outside of the PIF, which provoked even more vocal condemnation by Micronesian President David Panuelo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult to decouple these reactions to the fundamental nature of values, and the fluency Western and Pacific leaders exchange rather easily in public forums when developing new regional agreements. This does not mean consistent agreement and alignment on every issue. But values, as noted earlier, are fundamental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While readers may note my analysis may place Pacific nations on the \u2018Western\u2019 side of the ledger, there is a minor irony here\u2014it only enhances the choices of Pacific states to make non-Western links, especially in the service of interests. It also lays the foundations for strategic cooperation and capabilities\u2014two other fundamentals for a Pacific-led regionalism in our age of strategic competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The next article examines how Pacific nations can play a fundamental role in decreasing global tensions by leading strategic cooperation, while also developing capabilities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"author label\">AUTHOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Sean Jacobs<\/strong> is a Port Moresby-born Australian writer and government relations and policy specialist.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEAN JACOBS\u00a0 |\u00a0 Dame Meg Taylor has written a recent thoughtful analysis on threats to Pacific-led regionalism from Beijing and Washington DC\u2019s renewed Pacific focus. 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