Blinken to Meet with Quad, Pacific Islands amid Heightened US-China Rivalry


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Blinken to Meet with Quad, Pacific Islands amid Heightened US-China Rivalry American Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Melbourne, Australia, the first stop of a seven-day visit to the Indo-Pacific that, analysts say, is aimed at countering China’s rising influence in the region. His trip, which goes through Feb. 13, includes stops in Fiji and Hawaii – the first visit by the top U.S. diplomat to Fiji in nearly four decades. It’s an effort to elevate American engagement with far-flung islands in the southern Pacific – described by one analyst as a “ground zero” for strategic competition between the...