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100			_aDOIDGE Mathew _eauthor
245			_aBetween tides: _bexamining China discourses in Pacific Island news media / _cMathew Doidge and Serena Kelly
260			_c2025
520			_aThe Indo-Pacific context has gained increasing geopolitical focus over the last decade, and particularly over the last five years as powers such as the United States, Australia, the European Union (and three of its Member States – France, Germany and the Netherlands) have elaborated dedicated Indo-Pacific strategies. Underlying these has been a concern with the actions of China, defined through contested geopolitical discourses on its role as an actor in the region. While this contestation has been given some attention in academic literature, notably absent has been a consideration of the impact on regional states caught between these discursive tides, and particularly of the Pacific Island states (unsurprising, given the focus on the northern maritime arc that predominates in Indo-Pacific research). This article fills this gap through analysis of eight news media outlets (seven local and one regional) covering October–November 2019 and 2022, identifying the main discourses on China in Pacific media and their source, and examining the impact of these on local Pacific reporting. It finds that, notwithstanding the preponderance of ‘Western’ discourses on China’s role in Pacific media through republication of external media reporting, this does not translate into influence over Pacific reporting. Instead, it is Chinese discourses on its role that have the greatest resonance.
650			_aCHINA _xDEVELOPMENT
650			_aINDO-PACIFIC
700			_aKELLY Serena _eauthor
773			_gThe Pacific Review, Volume 38, Number 3, May 2025, pages: 534-563
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2024.2412010 _zClick here for full text
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