The Pacific Islands Forum is derailed by a high-profile withdrawal
Kiribati says it has left the regional co-operation organisation
With a swipe of a pen in 1832, Jules Dumont D’Urville, a French explorer, divided the islands of the Pacific into Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia. He named one group after the smallness of its various land masses, another after its multiplicity of islands and a third after its inhabitants’ higher levels of melanin (“mela” is Greek for “black”).
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Politics takes atoll”
Asia July 16th 2022
- Abe Shinzo’s policies will live on, but may be enacted more slowly
- Sri Lanka’s president flees, leaving the country in chaos
- The Pacific Islands Forum is derailed by a high-profile withdrawal
- Intra-party feuding distracts South Korea’s president
- Abe Shinzo left his mark on Asia and the world, not just Japan
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