![]() Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese speaks at a doorstop interview during a visit to the Toll NQX facility in Berrinba, Queensland on Wednesday. Pacific Island countries have the actual need for diversifying their external co-operation and the right to choose their co-operative partners.ĭeliberately hyping up tensions and provoking confrontational blocs wins no support and attempts to obstruct co-operation with China is doomed to fail. ![]() We must point out that South Pacific Island countries are not a backyard of any country, still less a pawn for geopolitical rivalry. ![]() Last night, China foreign policy spokesman Wang Wenbin hit back at Campbell’s trip, saying: While a read-out from the meeting said the US “resolved to intensify its engagement in the region to meet 21st-century challenges, from maritime security and economic development to the climate crisis and COVID-19”, it also notes that the four nations also shared their concerns about the “proposed security framework”. United States Indo-Pacific chief Kurt Campbell is on his way to Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, and has just convened a meeting in Hawaii with US Navy Admiral John Aquilino and senior officials from Australia, Japan and New Zealand to discuss the Pacific nation’s insistence on signing the pact. ![]() The Biden administration has issued a statement slamming the security deal between Solomon Islands and China for “its serious risks to a free and open Indo-Pacific”.
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