China Boosting Aid to South Pacific

The first comprehensive study of China's growing aid program in the South Pacific has found that Beijing provided financial assistance worth more than a billion dollars in the past decade. China is poised to overtake Japan as the region's third-biggest donor after Australia and the United States, according to the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy. The Lowy Institute considers China’s aid to the South Pacific mostly to be a good deed by a responsible global...

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