Australia outspending China as Pacific's most dominant lender | ABC NEWS

The latest version of Lowy Institute's Pacific Aid Map has revealed Australia has supplanted China as the dominant lender and infrastructure investor across the Pacific.
The federal government provided around 37 per cent of all development spending in the Pacific in 2024.
That puts Australia well ahead of the other countries, with New Zealand sitting at 11 per cent, the US at 8 per cent, China at 6 per cent and Japan at 3 per cent.

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