Penny Wong tells Pacific nations 'we have heard you' as Australia and China battle for influence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The arrangement would see a dramatic expansion of China's engagement with policing in the region, with the draft deal proposing to "expand law enforcement cooperation, jointly combat transnational crime and establish a dialogue mechanism on law enforcement capacity and police cooperation".
52% : It puts a significant focus on China training Pacific police forces, something it is already involved in across the region, with China proposing to hold "intermediate and high-level police training" for Pacific island countries and as a matter of urgency to "hold the first China-Pacific Islands Countries ministerial dialogue on law enforcement capacity and police cooperation" later this year, as well as helping to construct laboratories for fingerprint testing, forensic autopsy, drugs, electronic and digital forensics.

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