Solomon Islands readies for election in shadow of China’s affect
HONIARA: Solomon Islanders will head to the polls this week, voting in an election that guarantees to bolster or blunt China’s regional ambitions, with safety penalties that can ripple far past the Pacific nation’s palm-fringed shores.The archipelago, one of many world’s least-developed nations, is the unlikely focus of a diplomatic scramble pitting a rising China […]