Strategic chokepoints: the new U.S.-China battlegrounds

Washington wary of Beijing's advances in Solomon Islands, Panama Canal

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China has stepped up activity in strategic chokepoints like Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the Panama Canal and Ushuaia, Argentina. (Source photo by Reuters)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

TOKYO -- Kurt Campbell, the Indo-Pacific coordinator on the U.S. National Security Council, did not mince his words on a visit last week to Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands.

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