China's security deal with Solomons raises alarm in Pacific

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3. Wonder if money was the motivator or feeling ignored by the West or ???

These isolated "bases", if they become that, are more symbolic than militarily important. Generally military vessels in peacetime can dock and replenish at civilian facilities in many countries that can accommodate that size of vessel anyway. And in time of conflict, conventionally armed cruise missiles can make the critical parts of any base infrastructure rubble in the first 24 hours.