Solomon Islands signs $100 million Huawei deal | ErykBagshaw
Solomon Islands has signed a $100 million deal with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to build more than 100 mobile phone towers, deepening its partnership with Beijing.
The country’s Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has asked to delay its election due in May until after the Pacific Games in November 2023. The move has sparked claims by the opposition that Sogavare is attempting to engineer civil unrest, triggering an intervention by China’s security forces and maintaining his hold on power.
The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs said international investments were a matter for the Solomon Islands government. Sora said mobile telecommunications infrastructure was vital in the Pacific which suffers from poor connectivity over large distances. China is in the midst of digitising East Timor’s television network and is expanding its media training work across the region. Australia cut its Pacific programming under the former Coalition government as part of a $35 million reduction in funding for international broadcasting.“[The Huawei deal] appears to be about infrastructure development, but then perhaps, there could be a content element down the track exploiting the fact that Australia has retreated from that media space,” said Sora.
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