US plans to reopen Solomon Islands embassy in push to counter China

Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare. The US says it will open an embassy in the Solomon Islands, laying out in unusually blunt terms a plan to increase its influence in the Pacific nation. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare. The US says it will open an embassy in the Solomon Islands, laying out in unusually blunt terms a plan to increase its influence in the Pacific nation. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/12/us-plans-to-reopen-solomon-islands-embassy-in-push-to-counter-china