US to open Vanuatu embassy in Pacific push

By Associated Press

Apr 02, 2023 12:31 am

WASHINGTON, D.C.: United States President Joe Biden's administration announced on Friday that Washington would open an embassy in the South Pacific island nation of

Vanuatu, its latest move to blunt China's increasing influence in the Indo-Pacific.

HEEDING CLIMATE’S CALL Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau poses for a photo during an interview with Agence France-Presse in New York on March 28, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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