SYDNEY: The United States is in advanced talks to fund a port in the Solomon Islands, the Pacific nation's leader said, reinvigorating a race for influence with China in the region.The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), an agency designed to advance Washington's foreign policy in developi
The United States and Solomon Islands are in advanced negotiations to finance a strategic port in the Pacific archipelago, formerly coveted by China, relaunching the dispute over influence in the region, said the Solomonian Prime Minister.