New Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has called on Australia and the United States to rethink their approaches to the strategic partnership with the Pacific country.
In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Rabuka said he thought that Australia and the United States had an antiquated way of approaching diplomatic ties and engagement with Fiji.
“Australia and New Zealand and the United Kingdom and America have sort of seen us as the output of their colonial regimes of the past and have not reorientated their thinking to the international landscape where we are all equal,” he said.
“There is no longer any recipient-donor relationship.”…