The U.S. on Monday signed a security pact with Papua New Guinea, a strategically important Pacific Island nation of nearly 10 million people north of Australia, where Washington and Beijing are competing for influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Last year, the Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China, a diplomatic move that set off alarm bells throughout the region and in Washington. Beijing has accused the U.S. of trying to drive a wedge between Pacific Island nations and “regional countries” and pointed to this weekend’s G7 meetings in Hiroshima, Japan, as an attempt by Washington to institute an “America First” policy.
“Gone are the days when a handful of Western countries can just willfully meddle in other countries’ internal affairs and manipulate global affairs,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said after the G7 meeting.said the U.S. has helped Pacific Island countries secure more than half a billion dollars from international organizations to help them manage the growing impact of climate change.
“Our Department of Commerce will lead a U.S. business delegation to the Pacific Island countries in the coming year to look at concrete opportunities in energy, in transportation, in health care, in tourism, in telecommunications,” the secretary of state said.enforces a 1.5 million-square-mile exclusive economic zone, one of the largest in the South Pacific. The new agreement will allow cooperation between its defense forces and the U.S.
“Under this agreement, our forces will be able to board one another’s vessels, share technical expertise, and ultimately better patrol the seas together,” Mr.• Mike Glenn can be reached at
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