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Name: Australia scores strategic win as regional leaders back Pacific Policing Initiative
Uploaded: 2024-08-28T10:49:17.101Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Australia has clinched a strategic victory at the Pacific Islands Forum, as leaders agree to a landmark regional policing pact to keep Beijing’s strategic ambitions at bay. The deal will see Australia spend $400 million to train Pacific police forces, though leaders insist the deal is Pacific-led. SBS Political Correspondent Sara Tomevska reports from Nuku'alofa.

Australia scores strategic win as regional leaders back Pacific Policing Initiative

Published 28 August 2024, 9:37 am

Australia has clinched a strategic victory at the Pacific Islands Forum, as leaders agree to a landmark regional policing pact to keep Beijing’s strategic ambitions at bay. The deal will see Australia spend $400 million to train Pacific police forces, though leaders insist the deal is Pacific-led. SBS Political Correspondent Sara Tomevska reports from Nuku'alofa.

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