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French president warns of threat to sovereignty of ‘smallest’ states amid US-China power struggleChina’s rising power and influence in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsFrench president Emmanuel Macron has denounced “new imperialism” in the Pacific during a landmark visit to the region, warning of a threat to the sovereignty of smaller states.“There is in the Indo-Pacific and particularly in Oceania new imperialism appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the sovereignty of several states – the smallest, often the most fragile,” he said in Vanuatu on Thursday. Continue reading...