Xi and Sogavare also announced the setting up of a “comprehensive strategic partnership” and signed a joint statement for “mutual respect and co-development”.
“Developing diplomatic ties was the right choice … China has become the largest infrastructure partner of Solomon Islands and a reliable partner for development,” CCTV reported Sogavare as saying.
Soon after Solomon Islands switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to Beijing four years ago, it joined the Belt and Road Initiative – Beijing’s flagship multinational infrastructure strategy under which it offers loans and invests in projects like railways, highways and ports.
Sogavare, who led the switch soon after coming to power in April 2019, will also open his country’s embassy in Beijing later this week.
This is Sogavare’s second visit to China, but the first since the signing of a landmark bilateral security deal last year that had provoked strong rebukes from the United States and its South Pacific allies, Australia and New Zealand.
He arrived on Sunday for a weeklong, Chinese-funded trip aimed at “further strengthening bilateral ties”, an official statement from his government said.
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