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The real aim of China’s thrust into the Pacific

by Denghua Zhang June 3, 2022June 7, 2022

By the time Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of the Pacific is over in early June, he will have met with leaders from all ten Pacific island countries that have diplomatic relations with China. This tour is the second of its kind since 2006 (his predecessor Li Zhaoxing visited the region that year). […]

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