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2022 Jun 28
 Australia said it will set up a defense school to train Pacific island militaries, amid mounting competition for security ties in the region and as China lays plans for a rival meeting to next month's Pacific Islands Forum.
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2022 Jul 11
 Leaders arrived in Fiji for the 4-day Pacific Islands Forum, its first in-person summit in three years. Kiribati President Taneti Maamau has said in a letter his country would withdraw from the forum because it did not agree with terms of a deal brokered weeks ago to solve a rift between Micronesian states and other members, and wanted the meeting delayed.
Links: Fiji, Kiribati, PIF     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2022 Jul 13
 US Vice President Kamala Harris, in a video address to the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Fiji, said US funding for Pacific islands would be tripled to $60 million a year for a decade, subject to approval by Congress.
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2022 Jul 15
 China hosted a separate political dialogue with Pacific island countries on the same day Pacific Island Forum leaders met and agreed to resolve security issues within "the family", highlighting rising geopolitical competition in the region.
Links: China, Fiji, PIF     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 
2022 Sep 28
 Leaders from the Pacific Island Forum bloc began a two-day White House summit, at which the Biden administration seeks to compete with China for influence in the strategically important South Pacific. The United States announced "big dollar" assistance to Pacific island nations. The Solomon Islands said it wouldn't sign a proposed Declaration on the US-Pacific Partnership.
Links: USA, Solomon Islands, PIF     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
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2022 Sep 29
 The United States released its first strategy for ties with Pacific island nations, the second day of a summit with leaders from the region, pledging to help them fight climate change and rebuff what it called China's "economic coercion".
Links: USA, PIF     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
 



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