China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US

schizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.world – 43 points –
China to ‘fill the gap’ in Solomon Islands budget as PM blasts ‘unneighbourly’ Australia and US
theguardian.com
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lol, let's revisit in 10 years and see how this decision works out for the good people of the Solomon Islands

What's the worst that could happen, they end up with foreign military bases?? They already have several US..

Most likely outcome is they lose their democracy.

Sounds like the same sort of thing they're doing with the Ball and Chain- oops, I mean Belt and Road initiative. Might not always see the strings attached but they're there.