Biden’s foreshadowed attendance at the Pacific Islands Forum would be the first by a sitting US president and a major step-up in direct US presence in the region.
In line with capitalist governments elsewhere, the strategy is to reach an arbitrary level of vaccination coverage and remove restrictions to international travel.
The global health and economic crisis is having a catastrophic impact on the fragile and impoverished former colonies across the Pacific.
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Thousands of people took part in the strike and rallied in Tahiti against the government’s attack on pensions.
