The United States finally couldn't help it. On 22 April, United States Indo-Pacific Coordinator Campbell led a delegation to visit the Solomon Islands, and after arriving in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, the United States delegation held an hour-and-a-half meeting with Prime Minister Sogavare. After the meeting, the White House issued a statement saying that if China establishes a de facto and permanent military presence, power projection capability, or military facilities in the Solomon Islands, the United States will express major concerns about this and will respond accordingly.
Translated into human parlance, it is: If you Solomon Islands dare to recruit China's military forces, that is, if you want to live with me and the United States, then my United States will specify that I will not let solomon Islands have good fruit to eat.
As we all know, the rhetoric of US diplomacy is confusing, and some of them are even completely contrary to the facts.
When the United States warns you that you have weapons of mass destruction, you'd better actually have weapons of mass destruction. In the same way, when the United States threatens you not to make a security deal with China, you'd better actually do it. Otherwise, the fate of iraq and Libya is a lesson for the Solomon Islands.
The U.S. delegation traveled thousands of miles to the Solomon Islands, opened its mouth to drink and give orders to the owner of the house, and no one would be convinced, let alone Sogavare was still the prime minister.
Therefore, long before the visit of the United States delegation, Sogavare had made his position clear, saying: "The Sino-Security Cooperation Agreement is not aimed at any third party, but is purely to deal with the security situation in the Solomon Islands." I ask all of Solomon Islands' neighbours, friends and partners to respect our sovereignty and interests. ”
Sogavare's position is simple, and the Chinese side is even more unambiguous. On the day of the US delegation's visit to the Solomon Islands, Li Ming, Chinese Ambassador to the Solomon Islands, also issued a statement in which he said: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the cooperation between China and the two countries has made many tangible contributions to the development and stability of the Solomon Islands, including trade, investment, infrastructure, agriculture, tourism, and policing, among other things. The same is true of the China-Security Agreement signed today, where the cooperation between the two countries is clear and open, there is no geopolitical intention, and China will not interfere in the internal affairs of the Solomon Islands and infringe on the sovereignty of the Solomon Islands.
The cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands clearly covers so many areas, but the United States only sees the signing of a security cooperation agreement between the two sides, and does not see, or pretends not to see other aspects. This practice of partial generalization and distorting the facts in itself has exposed the shortness of breath and the loss of reasoning in the United States.
If we are really not accustomed to the cooperation between the two countries, the United States can learn from it, add more and increase the weight, and let the benefits of goodwill between the United States and china outweigh the benefits of cooperation. That's what the United States, which wanted to compete with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, did just that, and if the United States today could do the same, why bother with the Solomon Islands?
Former US President Theodore Roosevelt knew about the "carrot and stick" rule of doing things, so why do US diplomats now have a big stick left in their hands? Why doesn't the United States do this today, don't you want to?
No, it can't, it can't be done. For the game between China and the United States in the Solomon Islands, the British Reuters agency, a bystander, sees very clearly that in addition to direct armed intervention and subversion of the regime, the United States can play very few cards against the Solomon Islands. Of course, the United States can choose to reduce or cut off economic assistance to the Solomon Islands, but given the current relationship between China and China, the United States is likely to do so in the opposite direction.
To put it more clearly, all the U.S. can do now is subtraction, and there is little comparison with China. The United States only has sticks in its hands, while China not only has sticks, but also carrots, green radishes, white radishes, and a whole host of other fruits and vegetables that Solomon Islanders have never heard of.
The U.S. government has no idea what a stinky move it is for their officials to come to the Solomon Islands today to grin their teeth. Many American politicians are still indulging in the dream of the winners of the Cold War, always dreaming of recreating the victory over the Soviet Union in China. But these American politicians did not understand the situation at all: the United States was able to laugh to the end because the United States had a productivity advantage over the Soviet Union, because the United States was better able to meet the material and spiritual needs of its own country and the people in the Western camp.
But today, in the third decade of the 21st century, the capital of the United States has disappeared. The United States is still powerful in artificial guns and cannons, but it is China that now holds the advantage of productive forces; it is also China that can better meet the material needs of the people around the world.
To put it bluntly, the Solomon Islands, and many other countries like the Solomon Islands, they are not faced with the question of whether to choose China or the United States, but the question of eating guns or carrots. The Solomon Islands government can skip the U.S. set, and other countries can do the same. Good birds choose trees to perch, anyway, they all want to cool off, why not find a good tree for themselves?