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![Why Does China Still Care About Taiwan’s Allies?](https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/styles/summary_image/public/2024-05/20240528_solomon-islands-disappearing-9_nyt_ac.jpg?itok=GL0O4SV3)
Why Does China Still Care About Taiwan’s Allies?
In January of this year, Nauru switched recognition from Taiwan to China, reducing the number of Taiwan’s partners from 13 to 12. It did so two days after Taiwan’s presidential elections produced an outcome that was unwelcome in Beijing: four more years of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taipei.
![Illicit Drugs Are Undermining Pacific Security](https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/styles/summary_image/public/2024-03/20240309-coast-guard-san-diego-dod-ac.jpg?itok=dRYWpsXM)
Illicit Drugs Are Undermining Pacific Security
A quick succession of drug busts in Fiji earlier this year — the seizure of 3.5 tons of crystal methamphetamine followed by another 1.1 tons — underscored the threat that the illicit drug trade and narco-corruption pose to the stability and security of countries and societies situated along the so-called Pacific drug highway.
![Pacific Island Nations Seek Climate Solutions Outside of COP28](https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/styles/summary_image/public/2023-11/20231128-china-solomon-islands-nyt-ac.jpg?itok=wLFsPbms)
Pacific Island Nations Seek Climate Solutions Outside of COP28
While the Pacific Islands are responsible for less than 1 percent of total global greenhouse gas emissions, they face disproportionate impacts from climate change. These impacts are wide ranging: rising sea levels, salinization and dwindling availability of fresh water, increasing and more intense tropical storms, floods, drought, ocean acidification and coral reef bleaching. Already, NASA finds that sea level rise in Tuvalu is 1.5 times faster than the global average — and is expected to more than double by 2100.