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![Cultural Unity and Heritage: The Role of FestPAC in the Pacific Islands Cultural Unity and Heritage: The Role of FestPAC in the Pacific Islands](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-24-143458.jpg)
Cultural Unity and Heritage: The Role of FestPAC in the Pacific Islands
By John Augé
The Festival of Pacific Arts and Culture is a powerful platform for cultural preservation, fostering identity, and promoting regional unity.
![Shifting Models of Sovereignty in the Pacific Shifting Models of Sovereignty in the Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-22-123024.jpg)
Shifting Models of Sovereignty in the Pacific
By Patricia O’Brien
The ambiguous and evolving status of the Cook Islands and Niue holds lessons for other Pacific powers.
![Australia Aims to Broaden Media Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Australia Aims to Broaden Media Engagement in the Indo-Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-18-125616.jpg)
Australia Aims to Broaden Media Engagement in the Indo-Pacific
By Grant Wyeth
Maintaining a well-functioning media ecosystem is in the interests of domestic and regional stability alike.
![The Pacific’s Evolving Map The Pacific’s Evolving Map](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-15-130611.jpg)
The Pacific’s Evolving Map
By Patricia O’Brien
The quotidian legacies of colonialism in the Pacific are dramatically shaping the present.
![New Zealand Forges Deeper Ties with NATO New Zealand Forges Deeper Ties with NATO](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-10-203643.jpg)
New Zealand Forges Deeper Ties with NATO
By Geoffrey Miller
For the third year in a row, New Zealand’s prime minister attended the alliance's annual summit.
![Tropical Tug-of-War: China and the West’s Influence Battle in the Pacific Tropical Tug-of-War: China and the West’s Influence Battle in the Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-10-125508.jpg)
Tropical Tug-of-War: China and the West’s Influence Battle in the Pacific
By Shaoyu Yuan
The Pacific is no tranquil backwater but rather a dynamic frontier of global geopolitics.
![EVs Alone Won’t Save Australia from Climate Emergency EVs Alone Won’t Save Australia from Climate Emergency](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-09-131306.jpg)
EVs Alone Won’t Save Australia from Climate Emergency
By Lily Rau
Zero-emissions vehicles would need to hit 73 percent of new light vehicle sales by 2030 to keep transport emissions aligned to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees.
![Solomon Islands PM Manele’s Foreign Visits: More Than a Mere Balancing Act Solomon Islands PM Manele’s Foreign Visits: More Than a Mere Balancing Act](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-09-060924.jpg)
Solomon Islands PM Manele’s Foreign Visits: More Than a Mere Balancing Act
By Cherry Hitkari
Jeremiah Manele's visits to Australia and China highlight his pressing domestic challenges – and outside powers' longstanding policy failures toward the region.
![Where Is Australia’s Drug-fighting Money Going? Where Is Australia’s Drug-fighting Money Going?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-07-03-174752.jpg)
Where Is Australia’s Drug-fighting Money Going?
By Meg Grealy
Australia's drug budget heavily focuses on law enforcement over harm reduction and prevention, underscoring the need for more balanced, effective spending.
![How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’? How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’?](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-03-08-131458.jpg)
How Can Australia Confront ‘Hostage Diplomacy’?
By Grant Wyeth
Countries that engage in hostage diplomacy implicitly recognize that the countries they target value the health and safety of their citizens.
![This Year’s Pacific Island Elections Have 1 Thing in Common This Year’s Pacific Island Elections Have 1 Thing in Common](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-06-24-144111.jpg)
This Year’s Pacific Island Elections Have 1 Thing in Common
By Kerryn Baker
In a busy year of Pacific Island elections, a worrying gender disparity is evident. This has implications for the quality of democracy in the region.
![Energy at the Crux of Australia-Taiwan Relations Energy at the Crux of Australia-Taiwan Relations](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2024-06-24-125431.jpg)
Energy at the Crux of Australia-Taiwan Relations
By Grant Wyeth
Australia effectively powers Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, and, in turn, powers its Silicon Shield.
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