SUVA : Two Chinese defence attaches have been removed by Fijian police from a Pacific Islands Forum meeting at which the US Vice-President Kamala Harris was giving a virtual address, as per Guardian reports.
The men were watching a meeting of the fisheries agency of the forum when Harris declared an increase in US involvement in the region, ostensibly in response to China's expanding influence.
They were seated among the media representatives, but Lice Movono, a Fijian journalist who is covering the Forum for "The Guardian," recognised one of them as a representative of the Chinese embassy.
In June, when the Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visited Suva, Movono said that she "identified him since I've dealt with him at least three times earlier," including during the press-only events and question-and-answer sessions that took place there.   He was one of the individuals who was removing us from locations and giving orders to others to do the same, she said.
Later, diplomatic sources revealed that the individuals were a deputy defence attache and a defence attache from China, both of whom were assigned to the embassy in Fiji. The incident follows a recent uptick in Chinese activity in the area, which has been simmering as an undercurrent of the year's Pacific Islands Forum.

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