Pacific countries in the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between China and the US and its allies face a big decision this week
It was the week that everything changed. For years, security analysts and politicians have warned of the rise of China in the Pacific. Officials representing Beijing have been working slowly and, for the most part, quietly in the small island nations that dot the vast Pacific Ocean – cementing allies, funding infrastructure projects, conducting concerted person-to-person diplomacy.
But this week Beijing upped the tempo.
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