Washington is looking to block further Chinese inroads into the strategic region.
US president Joe Biden held an inaugural summit with the islanders at the White House a year ago.
Biden held an inaugural summit with the islanders at the White House a year ago and was due to meet them again in Papua New Guinea in May.At last year’s summit with 14 Pacific island nations, Biden’s administration pledged to help islanders fend off China’s “economic coercion” and a joint declaration resolved to strengthen their partnership, saying they shared a vision for a region where “democracy will be able to flourish”.
In Baltimore today, the leaders will see a coast guard cutter in the harbour and be briefed on combating illegal fishing by the commandant of the coast guard, an official said. The White House in 2022 said the US would invest more than US$810 million in expanded programmes to aid the Pacific islands. The US is still negotiating to open an embassy in Vanuatu, but has not significantly increased its engagement with the nation, which counts China as its largest external creditor.A senior Biden administration official said the US was on track to open the Vanuatu embassy by early next year and that other Vanuatu officials would attend the summit.
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