From the Solomon Islands’ perspective, the separate agreement with China may have appealed, as it allowed the country to diversify its security relationship and leverage political posturing in ...

Australia's deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, pledged support to the Solomon Islands during a visit as part of an effort to counter China's growing influence in the South Pacific.

The Solomon Islands' biggest aid donor, Australia provided policing support for national elections in April. China also has a policing presence on the archipelago, strategically located 1,600 km ...

The Solomon Islands government noted that agreement in their statement Friday, saying it will “continue to preserve its Security Agreement with Australia as it develops and deepen its relations ...

“Australia sought to be the Solomons’ go-to security partner and had to work to earn that right. Hence, going to Solomon Islands quickly,” said Marles, who is also Australia's defense minister.

The Solomon Islands had made a decision in 2019 to cease recognising Taiwan and switch its allegiance to Beijing. The Premier of Malaita Province, Daniel Suidani, had been unimpressed with the ...

Australia had expressed strong concern at the prospect of China's security presence in Solomon Islands in 2022, when a security pact was struck between those two countries.

Item 1 of 3 Members of the Australian Federal Police sit in a flight to the Solomon Islands to support the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force ahead of the Pacific Games, in Australia November 8, 2023.

Navy vessels from Australia and New Zealand will be exempt from a temporary ban on foreign ships entering the ports of the Solomon Islands, the Pacific island nation's prime minister told ...

Australia's defence minister said on Thursday during a visit to the Solomon Islands that a review of a security treaty between the two nations was "an opportunity to revitalise the security ...

September 9, 2022 Dunderheaded Diplomacy: Australia’s Funding Offer to the Solomon Islands Binoy Kampmark Photograph Source: Irene Scott/AusAID – CC BY 2.0 ...

CANBERRA, Australia — Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Friday blamed foreign interference over his government’s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti ...