US and China leave Biden 'high stakes' inheritance in South Pacific

Washington lined up new ships as Beijing closed in on port before Election Day

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A port in the Samoan capital of Apia: China is poised to help the island country redevelop another, well-located but disused port. © Reuters

JAMES ROBERTSON, Contributing writer

APIA, Samoa -- The week before Americans voted President Donald Trump out of the White House, a confluence of events thousands of kilometers away was shaping his successor's foreign policy challenges.

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