Hon NANAIA MAHUTA: It has always been a prospect that China would put a vision or a strategy to the Pacific. The Pacific is contested space, and we have to remember that not so long ago Secretary of State Blinken from the US also visited the Pacific with a set of opportunities. So going back precisely to the nature of the question, can I say that it became evident to New Zealand around the time that the Pacific were made aware there was an interest by Foreign Minister Wang Yi to visit eight Pacific nations in a very short period of time that we had greater detail about the intention.