Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi and his delegation leave their hotel in Honiara ahead of meetings with the Solomon Islands government as part of the delegation's tour of the region. It comes as China puts forward a wide-ranging draft agreement on security and economic cooperation and a five-year plan to 10 nations in the Pacific. The South Pacific is increasingly a theatre for competition between China and the United States -- which has been the primary power in the region for the last century. IMAGES ++COMPLETES 32B64B8/32B66GP++