Daniel Twining is president of the International Republican Institute in Washington. Amie Woeber is the group's program director for the Pacific Islands.
The visit this week of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman to the Solomon Islands comes on the heels of the country's alarming decision to enter into a security pact with China.
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