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Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a Pacific Ocean neighbour of Hawaii, with uniformed officers involved in community policing and a crime database programme, Kiribati officials said.
Citing reports from Filipino fishermen, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) last week said Chinese and Vietnamese trawlers have been using the toxic substance in the shoal, locally known as Bajo de Masinloc.
While the numbers may be small compared to Beijing’s, experts say these vessels play an “outsized effect” on the battlefield, as they can put other countries’ surface warships at risk and even alter an adversary’s naval strategy.
“We are rehearsing,” said Colonel Michael Logico, director of the Philippine Armed Forces Joint and Combined Training Centre, referring to exercises aimed at boosting interoperability with US forces and familiarising Filipino soldiers with the latest weaponry.
Australian winemakers have shipped millions of bottles of wine to Hong Kong in a bet that China will soon lift tariffs on Australian imports and revive a trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to industry figures and trade data.
Indeed, Prabowo promised as much when articulating his foreign policy on the campaign trail. During a November talk at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Jakarta, Prabowo told the audience Indonesia would “maintain our independent foreign policy”, saying the country would not join any military or geopolitical bloc while preserving good relations with all of its neighbours.
Washington’s delay in providing economic help to the Pacific island nation Palau has made some local leaders more willing to drop diplomatic ties to Taiwan in exchange for Beijing’s financial assistance, the country’s president has warned.
Treasury Wine Estates is planning to reallocate a portion of its Penfolds Bin and Icon wines from other global markets to China once Beijing lifts crippling tariffs on Australian exports.