Shortly after Australia’s Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese is sworn in on Monday, the country’s new prime minister will head for Japan for a Quad summit where he will “renew” his acquaintance with US President Joe Biden and meet other leaders of the group including the Indian and Japanese prime ministers.
History shows that such benefits are often lip service or extremely costly. And once the Solomon Islands is seen as strategically not so useful in the eyes of Washington, perhaps not even a bit of
China has stepped up its assistance to Pacific Island countries to help them fight COVID-19 with a new shipment of medical equipment delivered to Tarawa, Kiribati this week.