{"id":1666375,"date":"2022-09-30T09:22:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666375"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:22:44","slug":"biden-administration-announces-new-strategy-for-pacific-islands-amid-rising-chinese-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-announces-new-strategy-for-pacific-islands-amid-rising-chinese-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Announces New Strategy for Pacific Islands Amid Rising Chinese Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-administration-announces-new-strategy-for-pacific-islands-amid-rising-chinese-influence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1666375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration on Sept. 29 released a strategic framework for ties with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pacific\">Pacific<\/a> Island nations, the first document of its kind. The move came amid heightened actions by the Chinese regime to draw the region under its influence.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Partnership Strategy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Pacific-Partnership-Strategy.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) would help to increase engagement and prosperity in the region, as well as undergirding national security interests, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-white-house\">White House<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/09\/29\/fact-sheet-president-biden-unveils-first-ever-pacific-partnership-strategy\/\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is a Pacific nation, with its homeland including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and Hawai\u2019i,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. prosperity and security depend on the Pacific region remaining free and open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-strategy\">strategy<\/a> notes the increasing activity of the Chinese regime in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[P]ressure and economic coercion by the People\u2019s Republic of China, \u2026 risks undermining the peace, prosperity, and security of the region, and by extension, of the United States,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the blueprint frames the Pacific nations as a \u201csub-region of the Indo-Pacific,\u201d likely marking it as falling under the auspices of the previously released Indo-Pacific Strategy. That strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/02\/11\/fact-sheet-indo-pacific-strategy-of-the-united-states\/\">outlined<\/a> that the United States will focus on developing allies and partnerships to ensure the region remains free and open, prosperous, secure, and resilient in the face of increasing global competition.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new strategic framework underscores that it isn\u2019t focused on any adversary but seeks to positively develop the region by shoring up alliances and increasing trade and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an interest in maintaining free, open, and peaceful waterways in the Pacific in which the rights to the freedom of navigation and overflight are recognized and respected, people are prioritized, trade flows are unimpeded, and the environment is protected,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have an interest in ensuring that growing geopolitical competition does not undermine the sovereignty and security of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pacific-islands\">Pacific Islands<\/a>, of the United States, or of our allies and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration plans to boost U.S. commitments in the region, forge economic relations, build capacity to support local powers, bolster regionalism, and work with partners to develop and protect security and sovereignty for the Pacific Islands, according to\u00a0the document.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the plan occurred on the second and final day of the initial U.S.-Pacific Island Summit in Washington, during which the White House affirmed that it would dedicate more than $810 million in expanded programs to aid the island nations. The U.S. has provided more than $1.5 billion to support the Pacific Islands over the past decade, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/us-pacific-island-leaders-reach-partnership-deal-at-historic-summit\/6768625.html\">according<\/a> to a senior administration official.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s diplomatic initiative comes amid increased efforts by the Chinese regime to increase its economic and security ties with Pacific Island nations. Most notably, Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us-loses-key-foothold-in-the-pacific-as-china-gains-control-of-solomon-islands_4733319.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed<\/a> a security pact with the Solomon Islands in April, triggering pushback by the United States and its allies in the region over China\u2019s increasing military footprint in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The new strategy also set the United States\u2019 plans to formally recognize the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign nations, provide $600 million for securing regional tuna stocks, open a new U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) regional mission, $3 million in Coast Guard training and capacity building, and increased law enforcement cybersecurity cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this decisive decade, we will draw ourselves closer to the Pacific Islands, individually and regionally; coordinate more efficiently with our allies and partners; and create opportunities and work together to address threats to the region\u2014the climate crisis most of all,\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-andrew-thornebrooke\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andrew Thornebrooke is a reporter for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master&#8217;s in military history from Norwich University.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration on Sept. 29 released a strategic framework for ties with Pacific Island nations, the first document of its kind. 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