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BEIJING – Wang to Solomon, Wong to Fiji. The cross tour of the foreign ministers of China and Australia has started: to compete for this increasingly strategic slice of the Pacific. The head of Chinese diplomacy Wang Yi landed this morning at Honiara airport accompanied by a large delegation of 20 people, the first stop on a trip to the region that from today until June 4 will also take him to Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and East Timor.