China has spent years cementing its influence in a string of Pacific island nations, challenging traditional security partners such as the United States and its ally Australia.
“If they want to come, who would welcome them? Not Fiji,“ he told reporters during an address at Australia’s National Press Club.
Former coup leader Rabuka said the South Pacific should be an “ocean of peace”, free from the ambitions of jostling superpowers.
“We do not want superpower rivalries or big power rivalries to be played out in the Pacific,“ Rabuka said.
Beijing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars building sports stadiums, government offices, hospitals and roads in Pacific nations such as Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Kiribati, Solomon Islands and Nauru have in recent years severed longstanding diplomatic links with Taiwan in favour of China.
It inked a secretive security pact with Beijing in 2022, fuelling fears China may one day seek to use the archipelago as a military base.
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