Australia is ramping up co-operation with the Pacific after a major international summit ended in a tense dispute between China and the United States. Papua New Guinea hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting for the first time, but it ended without an official statement after the two superpowers could not agree on the wording. Australia was caught in the middle between its largest trading partner China and long-time ally the US, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison was making the Pacific nations a priority. "We're trying to focus on the development and the advancement of the Pacific," he told ... (full story)