Some say it's a very bad day for Australia and New Zealand.  

A draft deal between the Solomon Islands and China reveals Chinese security forces and military assets could be stationed in the Solomons.  

Solomon's Prime Minister has dismissed the criticism as insulting and says they're intending to forge ahead with the plan.  

The Australian foreign editor Greg Sheridan told Andrew Dickens this is the worst day for our strategic interests, since the Vietnam War. 

“The policy of our two nations was that we didn’t want the Solomon’s to do this and they did it anyway, so you could say the policy has failed.” 

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