The deal between China and Solomon Islands is not the government’s fault, according to The Australian’s Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan.
“It’s Sogavare’s fault, plus the Chinese Communist Party. But, as recently as last November, we sent Australian soldiers and Australian police forces to save Sogavare’s prime ministership,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“We’ve spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the Solomons over the last 15 years, we’ve deployed troops and soldiers left, right and centre – our intelligence agencies surely knew all about this stuff long in advance. “If after all that, you cannot stop what is an agreement, in fact, to have a Chinese military facility there … then I think that is a real mark of failure of Australian statecraft and policy.”
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