{"id":1191,"date":"2025-08-09T22:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T20:32:58","slug":"solomon-islands-blocks-us-china-taiwan-from-pacifics-top-political-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/1191\/eswatini-daily-news\/solomon-islands-blocks-us-china-taiwan-from-pacifics-top-political-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands blocks US, China, Taiwan from Pacific&#8217;s top political meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">By\u00a0Kirsty Needham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">SYDNEY &#8211; Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has said that 21 donor countries, including the United States and China, will not be invited to the region&#8217;s top political meeting<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, a move that<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> follows pressure from Beijing to exclude Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/australia-china-seek-bigger-ties-with-solomon-islands-2024-06-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">China&#8217;s biggest<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0security ally in the Pacific Islands, the Solomon Islands, is hosting the annual meeting of the 18-member bloc&#8217;s forum in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Three island states have diplomatic ties with Taiwan <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> not China, and <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">they <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">have expressed concern that Taiwanese officials would be blocked from entering the country.<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Solomon Islands switched <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ties<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> from Taiwan to China in 2019<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and removed Taiwan from a list of countries eligible for concessional entry in April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a title=\"King blesses E6 billion Taiwanese Industrial Park investment\" href=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/archives\/761\"><strong>King blesses E6 billion Taiwanese Industrial Park investment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Beijing, which has deepened its ties in the Pacific, claims Taiwan as its <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">own<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> territory. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Manele told the Solomon Islands parliament on Wednesday his cabinet had decided no dialogue partners would be invited to this year&#8217;s event, because a review of each country&#8217;s relationship with the Pacific had not been completed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He said he had informed the forum&#8217;s 18 leaders of the decision this week. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The World Bank, the<\/span> <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Asia Development Bank and civil society groups would attend, he added. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A U.S. State Department spokesperson said the United States is &#8220;disappointed by reports that Solomon Islands has decided to exclude dialogue and development partners from the PIF Leaders Meeting this year,&#8221; referring to the Pacific Island Forum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We support the continued attendance of all PIF partners, including Taiwan, at the annual PIF Leaders Meeting, as previously agreed by PIF leaders in 1992,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1192\" style=\"width: 929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1192\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10.avif 695w, https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10-300x200.avif 300w, https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10-332x221.avif 332w, https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10-664x442.avif 664w, https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d178763016d7b880415b6058ef7c3f10-688x458.avif 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Solomon Islands defends blocking almost two dozen leaders from Pacific Islands Forum<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Opposition party politician Peter Kenilorea Jr, chairman of the parliament&#8217;s foreign relations committee, said the decision was &#8220;a massive missed opportunity&#8221; for Pacific Island countries to meet global donors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;We know this issue is all about China and Taiwan,&#8221; he told parliament. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After forum leaders were told of the decision, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine criticised interference in the forum&#8217;s affairs in a speech to the Taiwan ally&#8217;s parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">China had &#8220;interfered&#8221; at last year&#8217;s meeting in Tonga to change the language of the leaders&#8217; communique, Heine said.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pacific-leaders-remove-taiwan-communique-after-china-complaint-2024-08-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">References to Taiwan<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0were removed after Chinese diplomats complained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Pacific Islands are among the world&#8217;s most aid-reliant regions, and on the frontline of rising sea levels <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">region<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">has also been a focus of increasing security competition between the United States and China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/eswatinifinancialtimes.africa\/taiwan-textile-giants-eye-eswatini-as-next-investment-frontier\/\">Taiwan Textile giants eye Eswatini as next investment frontier<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">While U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand are the largest forum members, neither Beijing nor Washington are part of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kenilorea Jr said he feared that China, which has a strong presence in the Solomon Islands, would hold bilateral meetings with Pacific leaders on the margins of the forum regardless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;This could be seen by some PIF leaders as a betrayal of the collective and could risk an even bigger rift <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">of<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> the group,&#8221; 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