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An activist holds a placard that reads "SOS!! Pacific Ocean!" during a protest against the planned release of wastewater from Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific. Photo by Anthony Wallace/AFP

Activists hold placards as they greet a delegate with a morning rave outside the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) at the start of the 80th Marine Protection Committee (MEPC) conference in London on July 3, 2023. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

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US National Security Council's Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell speaks during a press conference after meeting with Solomon Islands' government officials in Honiara on March 21. Solomon Islands' government on Tuesday announced that the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation had been chosen to lead a $170 million project to develop the international port in the capital Honiara. The Solomons have become the unlikely epicentre of a diplomatic tussle between China and the United States, after it signed a secret security pact with Beijing in 2022.- AFP

It is unfortunate that the word Indo-Pacific has been seen by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in terms of a 5-4-3-2-1 Formation not unlike that of Nato. - Photo: AFP

Leaders arrive for traditional welcoming ceremonies at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in Suva on July 12, 2022. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)