Australia-New Zealand travel bubble with Fiji and Pacific islands ‘can counter China’

• Canberra and Wellington have already agreed to a ‘trans-Tasman bubble’ – now calls are increasing for a ‘trans-Pacific bubble’ too
• This could boost Canberra in its ‘strategic competition’ with Beijing for hearts and minds, but one-upmanship could end in game of ‘whack-a-mole’