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April Sun in Our Cuba

Scott Morrison is singing a parody of 'April Sun in Cuba' while being paddled out of the Solomon Islands. A Chinese submarine is lurking nearby.

Mark Knight

24 April 2022

Rumours of a negotiations between the Solomon Islands and China to develop a security pact began to circulate in August 2021. The draft agreement between the two nations emerged on Twitter in March 2022, and a month later the formal agreement was announced by China. The Labor opposition called it ‘the worst Australian foreign policy failure’ in the Pacific since the Second World War.