Alarm over China-SI deal brushes over limits of Australia’s ‘influence’ in Pacific

by Joanne Wallis, Czes Tubilewicz  SYDNEY MORNING HERALD FOREIGN affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong has described Australia’s inability to dissuade the Solomon Islands from signing a security agreement with China as the “worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific” in almost 80 years.  This agreement seemingly confirms the Australian government’s anxiety about China’s growing…

CHINA’S PRIDE

SI receives first of eight PRC funded sports facility for PG2023 THE newly built Track and Field facility at the King George Sixth School former cricket field was officially handed over to the Government of Solomon Islands by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) yesterday. This is the first of eight sports facility projects under…

USA OFFICIALS HERE

Top United States security officials in Honiara to discuss SI-China security pact TOP United States security officials have arrived in Honiara in their efforts to force Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to scrap a security pact Solomon Islands signed with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) earlier this week. The delegation is made up of Kurt…

W/KWAIO BY-ELECTION  SOON

SIEC: Election details awaits the passing of the 2022 Budget THE Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) has assured the people of West Kwaio Constituency that the by-election for the constituency will take place this year. In a statement, SIEC acknowledges West Kwaio constituents’ concern over the delay of West Kwaio constituency by-election. The electoral office…