SYDNEY: Australia has urged China to release the details of a new policing pact with Solomon Islands, saying Beijing's latest push for influence threatens to inflame tensions in the South Pacific. Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare
SYDNEY: Australia has urged China to release the details of a new policing pact with Solomon Islands, saying Beijing's latest push for influence threatens to inflame tensions in the South Pacific.inked a raft of deals during a trip to Beijing this week
China has lavished attention on Solomon Islands since it severed ties with Taiwan in 2019, pledging large amounts of aid and bankrolling a series of critical infrastructure projects. "Solomon Islands and China should provide transparency of their intentions to Australia and the region by publishing the agreement immediately, so the Pacific family can collectively consider the implications for our shared security," the spokesperson said.
Australia's own long-standing security pact with Solomon Islands was recently put under review, stoking fears that the Solomons were drifting closer to China's orbit.Although Sogavare has repeatedly stressed that his country was"friends to all", a video posted by Chinese state media showed him telling officials"I am back home" after touching down in Beijing earlier this week.
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