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Graeme Smith

April 2022

Australian Defence Force personnel in Honiara last year. China Sam Enterprise Group proposed a 75-year lease of Tulagi Island and, later, a 75-year lease of land in Isabel for ‘naval and infrastructure’ projects for the People’s Liberation Army

The Chinese companies trying to buy strategic Pacific islands

Small businesses from China have scoured the globe for important strips of land. Are they trying to make money or are they a front for Beijing?

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  • Kathrin Hille

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