Chinese Land Deal in Solomon’s Guadalcanal Disrupts Access to WWII Site

Chinese Land Deal in Solomon’s Guadalcanal Disrupts Access to WWII Site
Protestors outside the Parliament House building during the Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's press conference in Honiara, Solomons Islands, on April 24, 2019. Robert Taupongi/AFP via Getty Images
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The battle fields of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, draw visitors from the United States and its war allies, as well as those from Japan, decades after the bloody campaign in the South Pacific ended.

But in recent weeks, some visitors say they have been prevented from accessing one of Guadalcanal’s most significant World War Two sites, which includes a Japanese war monument, after a deal handed control of the land to a company controlled by a Chinese businessman.