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Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele and Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hold a joint press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on June 26, 2024. The new leader of Solomon Islands has announced he will visit China to"reaffirm" his commitment to working with Beijing -- a relationship viewed with unease in Western capitals.
Sogavare switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing and later signed a 2022 secretive security pact with Beijing that raised Western concerns over China’s growing sway in the South Pacific. Local police, numbering 1,500 for a population of about 720,000, appeared overwhelmed when anti-government protests turned violent in Honiara in November 2021, leaving at least three people dead and much of the capital’s Chinatown district in ruins.
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