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China signs deal to ‘lease’ Pacific island

October 18, 2019

A Chinese company signed a pact to lease entire island in the Solomon Islands a day after Beijing recruited the Pacific nation as its ally. The leaked papers reveal that Solomons’ Central Province made a “strategic cooperation agreement” on Tulagi island, which has the type of deep-water harbour coveted by the military, with the state-owned China Sam Group in Sept.