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![Pacific Island Leaders Weigh Trans-Pacific Bubble With Australia and New Zealand Pacific Island Leaders Weigh Trans-Pacific Bubble With Australia and New Zealand](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-06-05.jpg)
Pacific Island Leaders Weigh Trans-Pacific Bubble With Australia and New Zealand
By Joshua Mcdonald
Some Pacific leaders support the proposal, while others have said it's way too soon.
![Pandemic in the Pacific: COVID-19 to Hit Pacific Economies Hard Pandemic in the Pacific: COVID-19 to Hit Pacific Economies Hard](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2020-03-30-3.jpg)
Pandemic in the Pacific: COVID-19 to Hit Pacific Economies Hard
By Joshua Mcdonald
The Pacific’s lucrative tourism industry could collapse amid the lockdown on international travel.
![Measles Outbreak Brings Samoan Government to Standstill Measles Outbreak Brings Samoan Government to Standstill](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-2019-12-03-7.jpg)
Measles Outbreak Brings Samoan Government to Standstill
By Joshua Mcdonald
Samoa shuts down its government amid a deadly measles outbreak and an anti-vaccine campaign.
![Paying Attention to the Blue Pacific Paying Attention to the Blue Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat-matthias-jordan-332208-unsplash.jpg)
Paying Attention to the Blue Pacific
By Grant Wyeth
Pacific Island countries want to rebrand as “large ocean states,” custodians of large swaths of the Pacific Ocean.
![Samoa Officially Becomes a Christian State Samoa Officially Becomes a Christian State](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat.com-30469573920_c97443f55e_z.jpg)
Samoa Officially Becomes a Christian State
By Grant Wyeth
The constitutional change is aimed at avoiding religious unrest.
![Australian Foreign Minister Island Hops Around the South Pacific Australian Foreign Minister Island Hops Around the South Pacific](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-12-07_14-37-50.jpg)
Australian Foreign Minister Island Hops Around the South Pacific
By Grant Wyeth
Julie Bishop will visit the Solomon Islands, Samoa, and Vanuatu over the course of two days.
![Sacred Ink: Tattoos of Polynesia Sacred Ink: Tattoos of Polynesia](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2016-11-25_13-45-32.jpg)
Sacred Ink: Tattoos of Polynesia
By Jonathan DeHart
After 150 years of religious suppression, tattoos have returned to their rightful place as cultural symbols of Polynesia.
![New Zealand's Mass Surveillance of Pacific States Exposed New Zealand's Mass Surveillance of Pacific States Exposed](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sizes/thumbnail/thediplomat_2015-03-06_06-31-25.jpg)
New Zealand's Mass Surveillance of Pacific States Exposed
By Ankit Panda
New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau conducts mass surveillance of several Pacific states.
![China Banking on Pacific Islands China Banking on Pacific Islands](https://thediplomat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/sizes/thumbnail/5230_5243a51c64828.jpg)
China Banking on Pacific Islands
A new report on China’s foreign aid programme to Pacific islands shows a new emphasis on loans, not grants.
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