The Solomon Islands Security Agreement With Beijing

The US has signed its first ever defense agreement with Papua New Guinea, which is very interesting because there's a bit of geo strategic rivalry with China going on there. What are you hearing about Beijing's next moves, given what could be described as a full court press of Washington to really reinstate its presence in the Pacific? I think from most observers, Chinese observers that I talked to this week, we do know that it would take long, actually, and a complicated process for China to continue to push for the security agreement"