Taiwan President Lai Ching-te puts on a cowboy hat given by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 27, 2024. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)For over three decades, the final communique from the Pacific Islands Forum’s (PIF) leader meeting has included a seemingly innocuous paragraph reaffirming a decision, originally made in 1992, to welcome Taiwan as a “development partner” in the region. It

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A U.S.-based nonprofit human rights watch group recorded 805 dissent incidents in China from April to June its latest report published Aug. 28. It’s an increase of 18 percent from the same period in 2023, despite the Chinese regime’s tight control. The

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