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  • LUCAS DE LA CAL

    Asia Correspondent

    @Lucasdelacal

    Beijing

Updated Friday, 7May2021-02: 12

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Australia has watched helplessly for many years at its loss of influence in what has always been "its territory".

China has pulled its checkbook to displace Australia as the main investor in the small paradise nations of the Pacific.

Beijing gifted the island of Kiribati with several commercial aircraft and a ferry.

To the Solomon Islands, Chinese Foreign Minister

Wang Yi

promised an investment of 500 million dollars.

In the background, there was the purpose of these nations to leave

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