Australia signed a new defence alliance with Fiji on Monday, bolstering ties as it seeks to outmanoeuvre China's push to hold sway in the South Pacific.
The Ocean of Peace alliance elevates Fiji to one of Australia's few treaty allies and binds each nation to come to the other's "mutual defence".
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