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🇸🇧 “The biggest no-show was Matthew Wale, the Solomon Islands’ prime minister since mid-May. The outgoing chair of the PIF [Pacific Islands Forum], Mr Wale has been lobbying the forum to agree on a new treaty that would make it tougher for China to establish a military or police presence in PIF countries. But on the eve of the summit, three members of his cabinet resigned and filed a motion of no-confidence against him. Mr Wale rushed back to quell the parliamentary revolt. That left his proposed treaty without a champion in Palau.
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🇵🇼 Surangel Whipps, Palau’s president and a longtime critic of China’s attempts to buy influence in strategically important Pacific island states, told reporters that, weeks earlier, China had threatened unnamed consequences if Palau invited Taiwan.”
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