Canberra touts 'much bigger' ties with its Pacific neighbour as its top diplomat Penny Wong arrives in Honiara for talks with new PM Jeremiah Manele following Manele's meeting with Beijing's envoy.
Canberra touts "much bigger" ties with its Pacific neighbour as its top diplomat Penny Wong arrives in Honiara for talks with new PM Jeremiah Manele following Manele's meeting with Beijing's envoy.Australia provided policing support for national elections in April. China also has a policing presence on the archipelago, strategically located 1,600 km northeast of Australia.
Australia is the Solomon Islands' biggest development partner, and had sent its second- and third-most senior government members to meet Manele since he was elected last month because it wanted to deepen ties, Wong said in Honiara on Thursday. Manele had told Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles, who visited last month, that his government was undertaking a security review to determine the future of policing cooperation.
A security pact struck with China in 2022 by the previous leader Manasseh Sogavare, alarmed Canberra and Washington amid concern over China's naval ambitions in the region.
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