Australia urged China to avoid “coercion” in the Pacific Islands and to be “more transparent in the aid” it provided on August 7, acknowledging a “state of permanent contest” between Beijing and the West. Australia’s Pacific minister Pat Conroy said new economic opportunities for Pacific Island nations should not be “accompanied by coercion and interference”....

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