I wrote: ‘Re-Negotiated PACER Plus for Post-Covid-19 Pacific Regionalism’ for the July 2020 Island Business issue. This was pitched particularly at strengthening Pacific regionalism (Pacific Islands Forum) as a means of a counterweight to what had appeared at the time as increasing threats to globalism. Moreover, strong regionalism is an effective collective means to multilateralism for PIF members, especially for the Forum Island Countries.
I opted for re-negotiating PACER Plus for three reasons. Firstly, the trade agreement was not being implemented at the time: its ratification target had not been reached . . .
