United States announces hosting first-ever US-Pacific Island Country Summit

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The United States has announced to host the US-Pacific Island Country Summit for the first time in the last week of this month amid China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.

IMPORTANT FACTS -

• This summit will be held in Washington from 28 to 29 September.

• US President Joe Biden will host the summit.

• The summit will showcase the United States' deep and enduring partnership with Pacific island countries and the Pacific region that is based on shared history, values, and people-to-people ties.

• The conference was announced a week after the US accused Beijing of expanding its nuclear arsenal.

• The US has claimed that the process of building an excessive nuclear arsenal by China could harm the stability of the Indo-Pacific region.

• The White House has invited 12 Pacific Island countries, including the Solomon Islands, which signed a security pact with China in April 2022.

About  Indo-Pacific :

• It covers half of the world's population and more than 60 percent of the global GDP.

• It is a geopolitical region that spans two regions of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

• Extending from the west coast of the United States of America to the west coast of India, the Indo-Pacific is a regional structure of 24 countries.

• It includes the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, western and central Pacific Ocean.