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Why China and the US are fighting over the Solomon Islands

Manasseh Sogavare’s close ties were already apparent in 2019 during his visit to Beijing.
China has pulled off a coup in the Solomon Islands: First, the archipelago breaks its ties with Taiwan, and now follows with a “security agreement” with Beijing. The USA and its allies are alarmed. But what makes the group of islands in the Pacific so interesting?
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Michael Radunski
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The power struggle between China and the USA has a new theater: the Solomon Islands – a small archipelago in the South Seas, located between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Just a few weeks ago, its geographical location would probably have been described as “at the end of the world”. But for a few days now, the group of islands with its population of just 700,000 has been at the center of the Pacific power struggle between the United States and China.

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