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 […]

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China says no banned areas round Taiwanese islands after two killed

BEIJING: There are not any off limits or restricted areas for fishing round a bunch of Taiwanese islands near China’s coast and Beijing reserves the best to take additional measures after two Chinese language nationals died close to the islands, the federal government mentioned. Taiwan on Thursday defended the actions of its coast guard after […]

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