Beijing certain is getting its cash’s value from the “safety pact” it signed within the spring with a tiny Pacific nation. Witness how the Solomon Islands in current days has began turning away port visits by U.S. and allied ships.
The island chain’s authorities final week denied permission for a U.S. Coast Guard cutter, the Oliver Henry, to make a routine port name. This adopted a refusal for Britain’s HMS Spey. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the refusals had been the results of paperwork snafus, however the U.S. Embassy in Australia on Tuesday mentioned the island nation has imposed a moratorium on naval visits pending growth of latest procedures.
