QUAD to Build Fiji Port: A New US-China Flashpoint?

Quad’s Fiji port plan will challenge China’s Pacific supply-chain dominance

Experts say the project signals to the region that the US, Japan, India, and Australia can offer more than Beijing.

QUAD to build Fiji port: A new US-China flashpoint?

Quad kicks back to life in Asia Pacific, looking to develop ports in Fiji, in a counter to China's rise.

The Quad meets, Fiji waits outside

From Berlin to Delhi, powerful nations still decide Pacific futures without Pacific voices in the room. The Quad’s latest Fiji port announcement is being sold as development assistance. But to many in the Pacific it looks uncomfortably familiar: distant powers gathering behind closed doors, shaping regional futures and expecting island nations to accept decisions already made elsewhere. Like a diplomatic masonic lodge, “the Quad” — Australia, In…