He also mused about Solomon Islands setting up its own armed forces,saying its police force was far too small to deal with a rapidly growing population. But that would be a significant departure for Solomon Islands,which has long been troubled by domestic turmoil but does not maintain a standing arm
7/13 “But Mahuta was having none of the ambassador's attempts to paint Nato involvement in this region as forming some kind of bloc targeted at China.”
7/2 “But Ardern said the lesson of the invasion of Ukraine for the Indo-Pacific was that war was never the answer.”／ saying Beijing had always had strong relations with Pacific nations.
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