When China officially opened its embassy to the Solomon Islands this week, exactly a year after wooing the Pacific Island nation away from Taiwan, there were smiles all around.Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the diplomatic switch to Beijing had been the “right thing to do” and put the archipelago of about 690,000 people on the “right side of history”.“Today marks a new era of relations that signifies the permanent friendship of the People’s Republic of China and the…
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