From The Hive:
We reported a few weeks ago on Professor Jane Kelsey’s positive attitude to the rising Cuban and Venezuelan influence in the Pacific. A very similar attitude seems to be adopted by leftist groups in Australia. This article is a few weeks old but gives the flavour of this viewpoint. The same website carries an interview with Venezuela’s Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Vladimir Villegas.
Also see:
The battle between China and Taiwan for the Pacific,
analysis of a recent speech by John Bryan, ex New Zealand high commissioner to the Cook Islands,
and The Hive’s original post.