{"id":59674,"date":"2023-11-07T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/07\/pacific-islands-forum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter"},"modified":"2023-11-07T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T18:00:45","slug":"pacific-islands-forum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59674","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islands Forum: what is it and why does it matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region\u2019s most important political gathering <\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Pacific nations will gather in the Cook Islands this week for the most closely watched meeting on the regional calendar. The Pacific Islands Forum, or Pif, is the main political decision making body for the region. This year discussions are likely to be dominated by climate change ahead of COP28, and will also address how to manage increasing geostrategic competition \u2013 including the rise of China.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the summit, officials confirmed the leaders of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> would not attend \u2013 weakening the prospects of progress on some issues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/07\/pacific-islands-forum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change and rising strategic competition among issues facing leaders at region\u2019s most important political gathering The leaders of Pacific nations will gather in the Cook Islands this week for the most closely watched meeting on the regional cal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,855,436,629,56,874,581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-cook-islands","category-fiji","category-nauru","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59674\/revisions\/59675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}