China, South Pacific Trade Talks Being Explored, And The Islands Want To Gauge China’s ‘Appetite’
- South Pacific is no longer the ‘hole of the Asia-Pacific doughnut’, and the biggest economies want a bigger bite - China is also looking to cement an economic foothold in the region, but such formal pacts often take years to negotiate and rubber stamp China and a group of South Pacific island countries could start talks this year toward their first formal trade agreement, according to an official from a regional network of nations. But while such talks could provide a boost
