How did many Australians come to accept that competition, rather than cooperation, with
China was necessary in the Pacific Islands? We use discourse analysis techniques to …

How did the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shape the volume and destination of Chinese
greenfield foreign direct investments (GFDI)? This article examines Chinese GFDI in …

Traditional powers have growing concerns about China's influence in the Global South
derived from its fast-growing outreach in the past two decades. However, how stakeholders …

This article explores the geopolitics of the Pacific Ocean, with a focus on independent Pacific
island states. In narratives of great power politics, Pacific island countries tend to be …

It has become something of a cliche to note that since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008,
we have been living through an interregnum in which'the old system is dying but the new …

China's rise in the Pacific has brought the region into the limelight, but research into the
views of Chinese scholars of Pacific Studies is limited. Building on a survey and interviews …

23.1 Net ODA from DAC countries (USD 2018 constant millions). Source: Authors' own work,
OECD (2020), Financing for Sustainable Development, https://stats. oecd. org/Index. aspx …

As maritime democracies in the Indian and Pacific Oceans look to balance a rising China,
Pacific Island states increasingly find themselves understood as a subset of a broader 'Indo …

Is foreign aid an effective soft power tool to bolster the international image of donor states?
This article explores this question in the context of China's humanitarian assistance to …

In response to the recently rising number of academic papers that empirically examine local
variances in China's Belt and Initiative (BRI) projects in various foreign lands, this paper …