Tuvalu fears that climate change, an existential threat to the Pacific nation, is being forgotten and it worries that fellow island nations could become "pawns" in a global competition between China and the United States, its foreign minister said. Simon Kofe told Reuters the superpower competition was a concern, distracting attention from climate change, the priority for Pacific islands endangered by rising sea levels. FILE PHOTO: Tuvalu's Foreign Minister Simon Kofe gives a COP26 statement while standing in the ocean in this handout picture taken in Funafuti, Tuvalu, November 8, 2021. "It is important that the Pacific handles these issues carefully," he said in an interview on Thursday. "The last thing we want is that countries in the Pacific are used against each other or used...
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