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Pacific nations have understandably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/publications\/dragon-looks-south\">intensified<\/a> their relationships over the past decade and a half, based on the proposed \u2018win-win\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciis.org.cn\/english\/ESEARCHPROJECTS\/Articles\/202007\/t20200715_3604.html\">nature<\/a> of Chinese help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it is here in this tension\u2014between values and interests\u2014where we see the need for \u2018strategic cooperation\u2019. Or, in other words, the potential for a blend between Western and Chinese forms of regional assistance. PICs\u2014rather than being passive players \u2013 can play a key role in blending this assistance and shaping cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Strategic cooperation\u2019 is <a href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/policy-institute\/china-and-us-case-managed-strategic-competition\">defined<\/a> by Kevin Rudd in <em>The Avoidable War<\/em> as \u201cthose areas where continued strategic cooperation (for example, on climate change) is both recognised and encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two sub-elements to strategic cooperation relevant to the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first, as Rudd <a href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/policy-institute\/china-and-us-case-managed-strategic-competition\">notes<\/a>, is that strategic cooperation is essential in offsetting escalations between Beijing and Washington, and \u201cnavigating each other\u2019s strategic redlines\u201d and \u201cmutually identifying the areas of nonlethal national security policy\u2026 where full-blown strategic competition is accepted as the new normal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PICs can play a unique role in terms of directing where and how such cooperation can take place, which empowers PICs and, at the same time, has the functional benefit of delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we find the second sub-element of strategic cooperation in the Pacific\u2014clear precedent. In terms of practical examples of cooperation, the region is not starting from scratch. The 2015 Australia-China-PNG malaria pilot control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/about-us\/publications\/Pages\/australia-china-png-pilot-cooperation-on-the-trilateral-malaria-project-independent-mtr-and-jmr\">project<\/a> is one small but important illustration. <a href=\"https:\/\/chinamatters.org.au\/policy-brief\/policy-brief-december-2019\/\">Another<\/a> is the 2014 People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC)-New Zealand-Cook Islands Water Partnership. The 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/australia-china-png-pilot-cooperation-on-the-trilateral-malaria-project-independent-mid-term-review.pdf\">review<\/a> of the Australia-China-PNG trilateral malaria project, in particular, noted the project was \u201ca successful model of trilateral development cooperation\u201d and that it \u201cdemonstrated the additional value made possible when these two donors [Australia and the PRC] work together in partnership with the PNG government. There would be merit in further application of this model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the projects are minor at this stage, PICs taking a greater role in directing strategic cooperation\u2014in terms of priorities that are important to them\u2014only enhances Taylor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/policy-institute\/pacific-led-regionalism-undermined\">claim<\/a> for the Blue Pacific Continent to continue its position as \u201ca strategically important site of independence, sovereignty, and peace,\u201d while remaining \u201cfriends to all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A final theme for PICs to consider as part of a framework for opportunity amid great power competition is capability. Both Taylor and the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PIFS-2050-Strategy-Blue-Pacific-Continent-WEB-5Aug2022.pdf\">2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent<\/a><\/em> surprisingly fail to mention this word beyond single references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capabilities, however, will be essential in meeting localised responses to climate change. Its continual elevation as a principal security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orfonline.org\/expert-speak\/one-region-two-narratives\/\">concern<\/a> among Pacific leaders\u2014in regional and international fora\u2014is essential for political awareness and exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, however, its elevation runs the risk of becoming scrutinised by Pacific citizens, who continually face localised climate-change-related environmental issues that rest on government capabilities and not international declarations or agreements. Regional examples include the management of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/eap\/blog\/last-islanders-rising-sea-levels-papua-new-guinea\">displaced populations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/vanuatu-overcoming-challenges-booming-waste-and-unchecked-chemical-importing\">environmental protection<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-02-14\/carbon-credits-projects-papua-new-guinea-logging-four-corners\/101936714\">forestry management<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservation.org\/projects\/sustaining-pacific-island-fisheries\">marine protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These issues, to speak frankly, are currently not <a href=\"https:\/\/epi.yale.edu\/epi-results\/2022\/component\/epi\">well-managed<\/a> by Pacific governments. Outside assistance in these areas\u2014in which the US has taken a specific contemporary interest through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pacific-Partnership-Strategy.pdf\">South Pacific Strategy<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/the-united-states-and-papua-new-guinea-sign-new-defense-cooperation-agreement-and-an-agreement-concerning-counter-illicit-transnational-maritime-activity-operations\/\">agreements<\/a>\u2014should not be overlooked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This perhaps will be the most important challenge for Pacific leaders that have endorsed the Blue Pacific\u2014to match the Strategic Pathways of the grand <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/PIFS-2050-Strategy-Blue-Pacific-Continent-WEB-5Aug2022.pdf\">2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent<\/a><\/em> (\u201cgovernance; inclusion and equity; education, research and technology; resilience and wellbeing; and partnerships and cooperation\u201d) to tangible outcomes for Pacific people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, this will be important not just for Pacific political leaders but, in the words of Epeli Hau\u02bbofa, \u201cordinary people,\u201d who Hau\u02bbofa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/23701593\">noted<\/a> in <em>Our Sea of Islands<\/em> \u201cmake decisions about their lives independently\u201d and who sustain \u201cskepticism about state policies and the like.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late Hau\u02bbofa is often cited by Taylor and other regional leaders as articulating the spiritual basis for a Pacific-led regionalism. Any fair reading of his work and legacy will cite two themes he often returned to\u2014a hostility to \u2018belittlement\u2019 and keeping Pacific people \u2018in tiny spaces\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A framework of opportunity now exists to avoid such things. And now offers a time for Pacific nations and people to lead in an authentic way in the age of great power competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>AUTHOR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sean Jacobs 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 While Pacific Island Countries (PICs) and Western nations rely on shared values as a basis for a strong relationship, Beijing relies on a different appeal\u2014an \u201cability to deliver,\u201d in Dame Meg Taylor\u2019s words. 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