Warily eyeing China’s Pacific influence, US talks up US$7.1 billion in aid

“Every day it is not approved plays into the hands of the CCP and the leaders here … who want to accept its seemingly attractive economic offers at the cost of shifting alliances, beginning with sacrificing Taiwan,” he wrote.

“The PRC has already offered to ‘fill every hotel room’ in our tourism-based private sector – ‘and more if more are built’ – and US$20 million a year for two acres for a call centre,” he wrote, using the abbreviation for the People’s Republic of China.

Chinese police work in Kiribati as Beijing…