Morrison defends response

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is following security officials’ advice in managing bilateral relations with the Solomon Islands, after Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare alleged he had been threatened with ‘‘invasion’’. Sogavare told Parliament on Wednesday that opponents of his new security pact with China had threatened his country and insulted it. Morrison yesterday rejected the opposition Labor Party’s advice to telephone Sogavare. ‘‘I am following very carefully the advice that I get from our security intelligence agencies.’’ Labor has condemned the China-Solomons pact as Australia’s biggest foreign policy failure in the Pacific since World War II.