A Chinese official has rejected the United States’ accusation featured in a new White House strategy document that Beijing employs pressure on Pacific island nations.

The 16-paged document, entitled “Pacific Partnership Strategy of the United States” and obtained by Newsweek, details a push by the Biden administration to forge stronger influence in a region that “spans nearly 15 percent of the Earth’s surface — part of an ‘ocean continent’ eight times the size of the United States.”…

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