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The best time to break out of strategic encirclement

Great power realpolitik often trumps small state sovereignty

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

30 April 2022

9:00 AM

Australia and the US fear that China’s newly minted security agreement with the Solomon Islands will bring Chinese military bases 2,000km offshore from Australia and anticipate that China will shortly put boots on the ground there. As sovereign states, China and the Solomons are fully entitled to enter into an agreement that introduces the Chinese military into the Pacific island country.

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