NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga: Pacific leaders on Friday (Aug 30) rejected a Beijing-backed call to break ties with Taiwan, saying a regional bloc would continue a decades-old policy of engagement. Members of the Pacific Islands Forum gathering in Tonga for an annual summit batted aside a push by one of China's allies to stop treating Taiwan as a development partner. In a final communique the bloc leaders "reaffirmed" a 1992 agreement that allowed talks with Taipei. Beijing has aggressively sought to