"The South Pacific has become a crowded field for influence with many diplomatic suitors. Japan’s efforts have complemented similar overtures by its key partners. That includes Australia, which has distributed the most foreign aid to the Pacific Islands in the past decade, nearly $7 billion, along with New Zealand, the United States and, to a lesser extent, the United Kingdom and France. But they are not alone, as divergent interests are at play in the Pacific," Miller writes.

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