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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">2024 ANU CHINA IN THE WORLD FORUM | PANEL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Great power competition and Pacific Islands’ responses<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">3–4:30pm, 30 August 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">CIW Auditorium, Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://ciw.anu.edu.au/event/great-power-competition-and-pacific-islands-responses">FREE REGISTRATION</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Pacific region is now a new focus of the US-China geostrategic competition. The China-Solomon Islands Security Agreement has exemplified China's growing presence in the region and exacerbated the US' concerns
about China's strategic intensions and influence. This session will discuss the great power competition in policy areas including aid, trade, security, climate change and other policy areas in the region. It will also explore responses from the Pacific Island
states. Specifically, the panellists will highlight vulnerabilities, opportunities, resilience of these smaller states, and understand their perceptions of the great powers.'<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">James Batley</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Distinguished Policy Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Denghua Zhang</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Henrietta McNeill</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sarina Theys</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Lecturer, University of the South Pacific, Fiji<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Chair<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Graeme Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">, Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Light refreshments provided at 2:30pm.
<a href="https://ciw.anu.edu.au/event/2024-anu-china-world-forum">View</a> the 2024 ANU China in the World Forum Program.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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