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Solomon Islands: China to Help With Policing and Security

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JUL 2023
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story last updated JUL 2023

The Spin

Anti-China narrative

Despite the US opening an embassy in the country and pledging $810M to fight climate change and maritime security, the Solomon Islands under Sogavare's government has decided to distance itself from longstanding Western allies and pursue relations with China. If Sogavare wants his country to remain sovereign, it would be wiser for him to consider what China will use these security pacts for with respect to its expansionist goals in the region.

VOA

Pro-China narrative

The Western powers are throwing a tantrum not because China is nefariously using diplomacy as a means to achieve military expansion but rather because it has conducted mutually beneficial deals with the Solomon Islands. The West does have a history of relations with the nation, but that history is of colonization and exploitation. Beijing, on the contrary, is looking to boost the islands' and its own security and economic prospects for the betterment of the whole region.

Global Times

Metaculus Prediction


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