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List of ambassadors of Fiji to China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ31359486 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fijian ambassador in Beijing is the official representative of the government in Suva to the Government of the People's Republic of China.

History

In 1975, the Republic of the Fiji Islands was the first government of the Pacific to establish diplomatic relations with the Government of the People's Republic of China.

In 1976 the government of Beijing established an embassy in Suva Fiji.

From 1982, the Fijian ambassador to Tokyo (Japan) was concurrently accredited in China.

In 2001, Fiji opened its embassy in Beijing.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of ambassadors of Fiji to China” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.