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The Australian Defense Minister said on Friday every step to build a Chinese military base in the neighboring Solomon Islands will concern, after the draft security documents between Beijing and Honiara leaked online.
Reuters was confirmed by the Solomon Islands government official on Thursday that the security agreement with China needed to go to the cabinet for discussion, and would match the security agreement signed with Australia which allowed the placement of the armed forces to Honiara.
The Australian security agreement was signed before the Solomon Islands transferring diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to Beijing in 2019.
The potential of Chinese military vessels based on the Australian environment has triggered alarms in Canberra, which clashed verbally with Beijing last month after the Chinese Navy ship through the northern economic exception zone led to a laser pointer on the Australian supervisor.
Defense Minister Peter Dutton said in an interview with Channel Nine Australia had 50 police in the Solomon Islands at Honiara’s request and they would remain there until 2023.
We will be worried, obviously, in every established military base and we will state that the Solomon Islands government,” he said.
We want peace and stability in this region. We do not want to affect those who are troubling and we do not want the pressure and coercion that we see from China continues in the region.”
High Commissioner Australia to the Solomon Islands Lachlan Strahan said on Twitter he had met Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Wednesday, a day before the construction of the security pact was leaked online, to promise $ 21 million ($ 15.8 million) in assistance, and the construction of two piers for Solomon Island patrol ships.
The Australian Federal Police Commissioner has also traveled to Honiara to meet with his partner in January, after Australia participated in a multinational police force in November to restore the civil servant after riots, at the demand for Souvare.
The former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the discussion of the security pact between the Solomon and Chinese Islands was “one of the most significant security developments that we have seen in decades and that is the adverse of Australia’s national security interests”.
