The opposition to missile deployment in Palau should sound an alarm to the US which is not interested in mutually beneficial cooperation with the COFA countries, but rather wants its own security to override theirs.
After fiercely hyping about China providing replica guns to the Solomon Islands for police training, seven months later the Western media seems to have a different attitude toward Australia providing real weapons to the islanders.
One year since the first virtual foreign ministers meeting between China and the Pacific Island nations, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi took a historic trip to eight regional countries and jointly chaired the second foreign ministers meeting in Fiji on Monday, during which China and the countries reached a new consensus to deepen cooperation on sectors including poverty alleviation, climate change and agriculture.
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