How China-Taiwan Issue Resulted In Riots, Looting In This Island Nation

The crisis is a result of a festering dispute over whether the Solomon Islands should have switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.

Angry riots that left buildings burning in the Solomon Islands capital on Thursday are the latest flare-up in two decades of tensions in the Pacific nation that have often ensnared Chinese businesses.

The recipe for the crisis is a complex mix of youth unemployment, anger over anti-coronavirus controls, historical inter-island rivalries and a festering dispute over whether the Solomon Islands should have switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China.

Here are key facts to help explain events:

'The Tensions'