How Chinese Financing Shapes the Pacific
One reason Pacific Island countries continue to borrow from China is their huge demand for infrastructure.
- Darshana M. Baruah,
- Satyendra Prasad,
- Denghua Zhang
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Satyendra Prasad
Nonresident Senior Fellow, South Asia Program, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
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Dr. Satyendra Prasad is a nonresident senior fellow in the South Asia and Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Programs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Prasad is the climate lead for Abt Associates based in Australia and is the former ambassador and permanent representative of the Republic of Fiji to the United Nations.
As nonresident senior fellow, Prasad joins the Indian Ocean Initiative and the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics programs working on issues of climate and sustainability with a special focus on the Pacific region. Prasad’s expertise on small island developing states and Pacific regionalism builds upon the work produced by Carnegie’s Indian Ocean Initiative which convenes an annual summit, Ocean Nations: The Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue. His work focuses on the nexus between islands, geopolitics, development, and climate change in the maritime domain
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7 Results· February 8, 2024
Carnegie Global Dialogue: China and the Pacific Islands
January 23, 2024
In recent years, Beijing has emerged as a key economic and security player for Pacific island nations. At the same time, Pacific island states face a multitude of challenges, from the impact of climate change to rising great power competition.
- Darshana M. Baruah,
- Satyendra Prasad,
- Denghua Zhang
What a Blue New Deal at COP28 Might Look Like
Four crucial factors could boost the ocean’s ability to play a critical role in stabilizing the climate crisis.
· December 11, 2023
Why Pacific Island States Are Concerned About Deep-Sea Mining
The underwater minerals are needed for the global transition to clean energy, but the effects of extraction may pose major risks to surrounding states.
· November 27, 2023
Ocean Nations: The 3rd Annual Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue
September 18, 2023
The third annual Summit of Indian and Pacific Ocean island nations, with a focus on the issues that affect them most.
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- Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar,
- Atsushi Sunami,
- Evan A. Feigenbaum,
- Ilana Seid,
- Margo Deiye,
- Darshana M. Baruah,
- Keyzom Ngodup Massally,
- Rudra Chaudhuri,
- Ranil Wickremesinghe,
- Richard Verma,
- Mark Brown,
- Hide Sakaguchi,
- Teburoro Tito,
- Elisabetta Menini,
- Satyendra Prasad,
- Tomoyuki Hirata,
- Viliami Va’inga Tone,
- Michael Schiffer,
- Elina Noor,
- Atsushi Watanabe,
- Dan Baer,
- Alison Clausen,
- Masanori Kobayashi,
- Henry Puna
“Consensus Is the DNA of the Pacific Region”
How small island states in the Pacific are banding together to navigate climate change and other pressing issues.
· September 13, 2023
Ocean Nations: An Indo-Pacific Islands Dialogue
September 19, 2021
Join us for a special two-day dialogue on security in the Indo-Pacific and island nations' perceptions of regional priorities and challenges.
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- Ahmed Khaleel,
- Jayanath Colombage,
- Lisa Curtis,
- Amatlain Elizabeth Kabua,
- Edgard Kagan,
- J.D. Koonjul,
- Anna Powles,
- Satyendra Prasad,
- Randall G. Schriver,
- Hiroyuki Suzuki,
- Teburoro Tito,
- Atsushi Watanabe,
- Fiona Webster,
- Darshana M. Baruah,
- Evan A. Feigenbaum,
- Ashley J. Tellis,
- Zainab Usman,
- Atsushi Sunami,
- Junko Chano