Escalating tensions over Solomon Islands security pact with China


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Escalating tensions over Solomon Islands security pact with China In a defiant speech to the Solomon Islands parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare denounced as “very insulting” the backlash from Australia and New Zealand to his government’s negotiations with China. A draft “security cooperation” agreement between the Solomons and China would allow Beijing to send military forces and ships to the small Pacific Island state. The online [leaking](/en/articles/2022/03/26/zlgk-m26.html) of the draft agreement last week met with immediate uproar in Canberra, Wellington, and Washington. Sogavare declared that the regional imperialist powers viewed the Solomons as their “backyard” and pointed to “discussions...