BEIJING: US and Australian speculation about construction of an alleged military base in Solomon Islands is ‘pure propaganda’

247 – Beijing rejected statements from Canberra and Washington about the Chinese government’s alleged plans to build a military base in the Solomon Islands and assured that security cooperation with the ocean country is “based on equality and mutual benefit”.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news conference on Monday that “speculation about China building a military base in the Solomon Islands is completely misinformation fabricated by a handful of people with ulterior motives.” for website rt,

He further said that cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands is “within the sovereignty” of the nations and “consistent with international law and customary international practice”.

Qualifying the bilateral cooperation as “open, transparent, lawful, legal and irrevocable”, the Chinese spokesperson recalled that “South Pacific island countries are independent and sovereign states, not the backyard of the US or Australia”. “Efforts to revive the Monroe Doctrine” in that area “will not be supported and will get you nowhere”, he assured.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that building a military base in the Solomon Islands would represent a “red line”. A US delegation visited Honiara and directly alerted Prime Minister Manasseh Sogaware that the US would “respond accordingly” to the construction of a Chinese military base.

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