A Chinese state-owned company is “negotiating to buy a deepwater port and a World War Two airstrip” in the Solomon Islands, according to a report on Monday by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which also revealed documents that allegedly show Beijing used a multi-million-dollar “slush fund” to keep the Pacific nation’s leader in power.
China is eyeing a hardwood forestry plantation on the island of Kolombangara, although a local MP claimed that a representative from the China Forestry Group Corporation who visited the island three years ago showed more interest in its protected deepwater harbour and the local airstrip, the ABC Four Corners report said.
Read the full report: ABC News.
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