'Were we told the truth?': Chinese 'replica' guns in Solomon Islands likely real - US cable says

The Solomon Islands opposition party is calling for an investigation into a contentious shipment of "replica weapons" brought into the Pacific country by China, after a diplomatic source says they were likely real.

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