For Australia and the US, the Pacific is no longer a comfortable backyard — it's a battleground of credibility.
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Australia Watches as Chinese Proxies Try to Jail Opposition

Australia's approach to China's ongoing destruction of economies, societies and democracies in places like Solomon Islands ...
China is using gray zone tactics - coercive actions short of open warfare - to expand its influence in the Indo-Pacific.
Farmers in the Northern Plains are facing cash soybean prices below $9, and with China absent from the soybean export market, $8 soybeans could continue to be a reality this harvest. In fact, Dan ...