WASHINGTON, Sept 30 ― US President Joe Biden, his administration pledging to help Pacific island leaders stave off what it calls China's “economic coercion,” promised them yesterday to work harder with allies and partners to address their needs.
He vowed to make a priority of strengthening the US partnership with their countries and to help them address what he called the “existential threat” posed by the climate crisis. China says its ties with Pacific island countries are based on mutual cooperation, that the region is not the backyard of any country, and that Washington's attempts to stir up opposition to China there will fail.
That figure included a previously announced 10-year US$600 million economic assistance agreement request to Congress to build climate resilience and maritime security for the island states, according to a White House fact sheet. That deal included provisions for Chinese police to help maintain social order and fuelled concerns among the United States and its allies of Chinese militarization of the region.
Pacific's needs had been long being forgotten by the Yankees and the West unspeakably, until China had landed... It's commonsensical that none will respond to such sudden warmness ..
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