The leak of a draft security cooperation agreement between China and the Solomon Islands has alarm bells ringing in Honiara, the nation’s capital, and beyond.
Provisions in the agreement, such as those that seemingly authorize the dispatch of Chinese forces to help control social unrest in the country, are especially worrisome.
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