There are opportunities and challenges for Pacific island countries signing up to China's Belt and Road Initiative. Fiji has already joined up to the Pacific prong of the strategy - the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road; new powers will allow Palau's government to revoke tourism operators licenses for breaching a set of laws being introduced to improve environmental protections in the country; the Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand's Vanuatu eye clinic provides vital eye care for people in the country; as Facebook moves to reassure the world it is improving online protections against abuse and false information, questions are being raised over whether this strategy extends to the Pacific; the American based Samoan actor, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, has announced he's been cast to play Hawaii's King Kamehameha in an upcoming Hollywood film.