U.S. officials are expected to soon be sending a team of delegates to Solomon Islands as the two work to finalize an agreement that has sparked rising concern about Chinese influence expanding to the South Pacific and moved the President of Micronesia to urge Solomon Islands to reconsider its decision.

"The delegation—which will include representatives from the National Security Council, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the United States Agency for International Development—will seek to further deepen our enduring ties with the region and to advance a free, open, and resilient Indo-Pacific," NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a press release.

With Solomon Islands having changed the country's diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to Beijing just three years ago, sparking riots across much of the country, the Micronesia President David Panuelo, added "such a novel and unprecedented security agreement between China and Solomon Islands poses a risk of increasing geopolitical tensions across the Blue Pacific Continent."

The president also pointed to examples from World War II of things he’s steadfastly convinced no one wants to see again.

"I am confident that neither of us wishes to see a conflict of that scope or scale ever again," he wrote.

A recently publicized leaked draft of the security agreement being weighed by the two sides details Chinese warships being able to use the country for replenishment and that the Chinese could send armed forces to Solomon Islands, a first step in establishing a military base that would be strategically critical and in the proximity of western-aligned countries.

To date, China operates just one acknowledged foreign military base in nearby Djibouti.

Back in February, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Washington would reopen its embassy in the capital of Honiara, which has been closed now for nearly the last three decades, to increase its influence in the Solomon Islands before China becomes “strongly embedded.”