Australias new prime minister, antony albanease, said on saturday he had a comprehensive plan for the region. Australia also sent its new foreign minister, penny one, to fij on th Thursday to try an strengthen that relationship. And she also committed to listening to the pacific islands, and particularly on climate change.
The country has just one foreign military base, but there are fears it wants to dot the Pacific region
with more—and that is, so far, proving tricky. With ties between Western and Russian scientists severed, decades of research in the Arctic, particularly on climate change, are
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