US National Security Council's Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell speaks during a press conference after meeting with Solomon Islands' government officials in Honiara on March 21. Solomon Islands' government on Tuesday announced that the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation had been chosen to lead a $170 million project to develop the international port in the capital Honiara. The Solomons have become the unlikely epicentre of a diplomatic tussle between China and the United States, after it signed a secret security pact with Beijing in 2022.- AFP
