Surangel Whipps Jr, president of an 18,000-strong Pacific Island nation difficult to place on a map, has become an unlikely irritant for China, the world’s second-largest economy.
The Pacific Islands Forum that Whipps is hosting has once again been drawn into the intensifying power competition playing out across the region, and is the latest focus of China’s relentless efforts to erase Taiwan’s presence from the international stage.
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