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The Quad meets, Fiji waits outside

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By Michael Field
| Islands Business Verified
FROM Berlin to Delhi, powerful nations still decide Pacific futures without Pacific voices in the room. The Quad’s latest Fiji port announcement is being sold as development assistance. But to many in the Pacific it looks uncomfortably familiar: distant powers gathering behind closed doors, shaping regional futures and expecting island nations to accept decisions already made elsewhere.
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The Quad meets, Fiji waits outside

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By Michael Field
| Devpolicy Blog
From Berlin to Delhi, powerful nations still decide Pacific futures without Pacific voices in the room. The Quad’s latest Fiji port announcement is being sold as development assistance. But to many in the Pacific it looks uncomfortably familiar: distant powers gathering behind closed doors, shaping regional futures and expecting island nations to accept decisions already made elsewhere.
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Empire of Empty Rocks

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By Michael Field
| Vanuatu Daily Post Verified
Two barren volcanic rocks in the South Pacific have become the focus of a geopolitical struggle involving empire, decolonisation, maritime law and strategic power. France and Vanuatu are quietly negotiating the future of Matthew and Hunter Islands — where sovereignty matters less for the land itself than the vast ocean and influence surrounding it. When a major colonial power insists that two barren, uninhabited volcanic rocks are sovereign territory, it is rarely about honour.
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