China has on 31 January dispatched two naval vessels to the disaster-hit Tonga as it expands its humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts to the South Pacific country, following a massive eruption of an underwater volcano that caused a tsunami which devastated its smaller outer islands and cut commercial air transport links. The two-ship […]

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