"Australian
Prime Minister Scott Morrison raised eyebrows Sunday when he insisted
his 
administration will “ensure” that no Chinese military base is
constructed in the Solomon Islands–an unlikely scenario which Morrison
nonetheless insists is a “red line” that its neighbor, the Solomon
Islands, must not cross.
He
later said it would be “unwise” to explain what, exactly, Australia
would do to prevent such a prospect. The remarks came during a debate in
which both the ruling Liberal Party PM and his Labor Party challenger
repeatedly accused each other of being insufficiently hawkish towards
China. Labor leader Anthony Albanese declared that Morrison’s failure to
prevent China and the Solomon Islands from signing a bilateral
cooperation treaty constituted a “massive foreign policy failure.” Sputnik
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