PACIFIC — Pacific summit to put ‘human face’ on climate change2. PACIFIC — Pacific Island lawmakers tour Yunnan to study rural vitalisation, ecology5. FIJI — Fiji Electoral Commission introduces appeal rules for opinion poll decisions8. The 2026 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting will be held in Koror, Palau, from 30 August to 4 September. We are seeing the regional security architecture itself becoming increasingly broadened, and there are certainly concerns about what this means for the region itself, for what it means for a genuinely Pacific-led regional security architecture.