With the news that the Solomon Islands PM has invited Chinese Riot Police to help maintain law and order in the Island State. This in addition to contingents from a number of Pacific Forum countries already on the ground.
The beleaguered Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, is playing a dangerous game. In seeking to divert attention away from the domestic drivers of the unrest, he blamed foreign powers for influencing Malaitaian discontent. While attributing the unrest in the Solomon Islands solely to geopolitical maneuvering is simplistic it provides a warning of how strategic competition can undermine resilience and contribute to fragility.
Clearly China, having successfully purchased the countries soul in wooing it away from Taiwan, is now calling the shots. The Japanese understood the strategic importance of the Solomon Islands in WW2 as an important base in their efforts to establish hegemony in the South Pacific. Seems China is doing with dosh and realpolitik arm twisting what the Japanese failed to do by force of arms.
We should be worried.
No Minister 
The reason for strife in Guadalcanal is because it is the only island in the Solomons with the soil and the drainage to support a big runway. Airpower. Hold Guadalcanal, hold the approaches to Australia.
The Japanese picked it in WW2 for a reason.
Any other considerations for the loi resent dispute are subject to this.
If I was a serious Chinese General I’d add North Island NZ and New Caledonia to my wishlist of bases.
Far better foraging on North Island( the Japanese starved on Guadalcanal) same degree of military resistance, presently. Same interdiction opportunities.