Biden Administration to Host ‘First Ever’ US-Pacific Island Summit Amid Beijing Influence Push

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 20, 2022. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration will push to reverse Beijing’s encroaching influence in the Indo-Pacific region when the “first ever” U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit is held in Washington D.C. on Sept. 28-29.

The Summit aims to broaden existing partnerships between the United States and Pacific Island Countries and territories in which under the U.S.’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, a “free and open Indo-Pacific”—and other related objectives—are being sought.