Pacific leaders reach crucial deal to restore political unity, as China’s interest in region accelerates

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The agreement, which stops the region’s key diplomatic body, PIF, from splitting, lifts a ‘big dark, dark cloud that has been hanging over the Pacific’Pacific leaders have reached a crucial deal to prevent the region’s key diplomatic body from breaking up, ending a painful impasse that has threatened unity in the region for more than a year.The deal, which was sealed after talks among key Pacific leaders in Fiji, restores unity for the Pacific Islands Forum at a crucial time, as China’s interest in the region has undergone an “uptick in tempo”, placing the region at the heart of a geopolitical tussle. Continue reading...

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