Pacific Islands Forum communique taken down after Chinese envoy calls Taiwan reference ‘unacceptable’
by Daniel Hurst in Nuku'alofa, Tonga from World news | The Guardian on (#6QCDY)
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A summit of Pacific leaders has ended in drama after China's regional envoy demanded the scrapping of language about Taiwan, with the communique later republished without the offending paragraph.
The Pacific Islands Forum (Pif) summit in Tonga this week brought together Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific island countries or territories, only three of which still have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
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