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Peter Kenilorea on Solomon Islands security and political challenges

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The Importance of Diversifying Our Security Forces

There are Chinese police deployed here for capacity building, and your prime minister has said that was to fill gaps. You also have a number after the unrest last year, you have deploys from Australia and New Zealand, Papua New Guinea I think some of it a pause but we'll be back and you also have Fiji. How do you see your security forces navigating this and do they have the leadership capability to lead when you have five different countries police forces in your country that might be involved if something goes wrong? "I still can't understand the logic behind the signing of the treaty with China when we already had one with Australia, and we have a status of forced agreement with the US back in

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