China's controversial security deal with the Solomon Islands
Journalist and broadcaster, Tim Marshall, shares his thoughts on the Solomon Islands' shift towards a security deal with China
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Journalist and broadcaster, Tim Marshall, shares his thoughts on the Solomon Islands' shift towards a security deal with China
Tim Marshall is a journalist, broadcaster and author of Prisoners of Geography and Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls
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A re-alignment of alliances for the Solomon Islands would change the military calculus of the southern Pacific. Should Chinese defense forces regularly visit, that would give them a base of operations about 1,200 miles from the eastern coast of Australia and smack in the middle of thousands of Pacific islands.
[By Richard Herr] In his statement to the Solomon Islands parliament on thedraft security agreeme...