SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States has conducted a survey of a Chinese-funded wharf in Vanuatu ahead of a military exercise by U.S. forces planned for the South Pacific later this year, the U.S. Marine Corps said on Saturday.
The wharf had been the subject of reports in Australia's Fairfax Media that China wanted to establish a permanent military base in the Pacific island nation.
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