Solomon Islands

CHINA’S spending spree throughout the South Pacific is drying up as Beijing instead seeks to cement its footprint in a smaller number of “friendly states”, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.

THE United States officially re-opened an embassy in the Solomon Islands on Thursday as part of Washington’s bid to boost relations in the Pacific region as a counter to China.

When the Solomon Islands’ prime minister stood before Parliament on Wednesday to announce that his government had signed a sweeping security agreement with China, he insisted that it would “not advers...

TO HEAR it bruited about in the Australian general election campaign, the pact between China and the Solomon Islands is the biggest threat to the country since the Japanese briefly held the islands in...

US President Joe Biden, his administration pledging to help Pacific island leaders stave off what it calls China’s “economic coercion,” promised them on Thursday (Sep 29) to work harder with allies an...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday rolled out the red carpet for Pacific Island leaders in the face of rising Chinese influence in the region and said it expected a united front, despit...

AUSTRALIA used its first face-to-face diplomatic talks with the Solomon Islands since the Pacific nation inked a controversial security agreement with China to outline its “deep concerns” over the new...

[SYDNEY] The Solomon Islands government says a contract signed by one of its provinces to lease the entire island of Tulagi to a Chinese company is unlawful and should be terminated.

[WASHINGTON] US Vice-President Mike Pence has canceled plans to meet with the leader of the Solomon Islands to discuss development partnerships after the Pacific island cut ties with Taiwan in favour ...