01037nam a22001457a 4500 531441 531441 250901b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Popli, Manah 56619 Balancing United States and Chinese influence in papua New Guinea: opportunities for south Pacific cooperation USI Journal 155(640), Apr-Jun, 2025: p.308-320 This article is an attempt to analyse whether pacific Island countries are trying to balance between the Chinese and the United States(US) interests in the South Pacific region. It looks at the Chinese attempts to attract South Pacific countries and the Chinese actions to ascertain its interests in the region. Since the region consists of 13 countries and the dynamics between each country with the two global powers are evolving , the article takes up the relations between Papua New Guinea(PNG) with the US and China as a case study. South Pacific Countries, PNG, Papua New Guinea, US and China 56620 USI Journal AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 406639 IIPA IIPA 2025-09-01 AR137152 2025-09-01 AR