The Solomon Islands government has handed a multi-million-dollar contract for a port upgrade to China’s largest construction company. The state-owned China Civil Engineering Construction Company was the only company to bid for the project, according to government sources. “This will be upgrading the old international port in Honiara and two domestic wharves in the provinces,”…

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is reportedly building a secret naval base in Cambodia as the Chinese Communist regime seeks to expand its “historic sphere of influence” in the Indo-Pacific region. The base buildings are at a northern part of Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base on the Gulf of Thailand, The Washington Post reported on June…

The Australian government has committed $4.3 billion (US$3.1 billion) to build the first large-vessel dry docking facility at Henderson Shipyard in Western Australia. It comes as Australia’s west coast state is set to host American and British nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS partnership. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said the project includes…