Although the hot spot in the world is currently the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in the South Pacific region, the initial signing of a security agreement between China and the Solomon Islands has immediately become a "high heat" thing under the hype of the West. Australia, New Zealand and the United States have expressed their position on this, saying that they do not want Solomon to sign an agreement with the Chinese side, not only that, the three parties have also sent delegations to Solomon to continue to put pressure on the government. However, after experiencing last year's harassment, Solomon has thoroughly seen the faces of Western countries, and he knows his own security guarantees, and only cooperation with China is the best choice. Therefore, Solomon did not relax at all about the United States and Australia. In this context, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, while delineating his sphere of influence in the South Pacific, also pulled up the United States and drew a "red line" for China, saying that "if China builds a military base in Solomon, neither we nor the United States will agree."
According to the Observer Network reported on April 25, Australian Prime Minister Morrison recently declared that "we will not be allowed to build a Chinese naval base at our doorstep and in our region", and after delineating the sphere of influence, he also said that if China builds a military base in the Solomon Islands, it will become a "red line" for Australia and the United States. However, Morrison did not disclose what kind of response he would make if the "red line" was crossed by the Chinese side. It is said that on March 30, China and the two sides initialed a "security cooperation framework agreement", and it is this agreement that has stirred up the sensitive nerves of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.
After that, Australia sent several waves of officials to Solomon, all of which came for this matter, while providing so-called "assistance" to the So-called "aid", they also put pressure on the French side to try to engage in a "security agreement" between Huang and Zhong; previously, New Zealand, which has just upgraded free trade relations with China, has also rarely spoken out about the "Agreement", expressing "serious concern", and New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern even said that "Solomon is completely unnecessary".
Later, Campbell, the US Indo-Pacific coordinator known as the "Czar of the Asia-Pacific", also led a US delegation to Solomon to put pressure on the Government, saying that "if Solomon lets the Chinese side build a military base in the country, the US side will express serious concerns and respond." Obviously, this is already intimidating the Solomon government. Observations have found that the United States has not paid so much attention to this small South Pacific country for nearly 40 years. What is very "double standard" is that the United States itself has built hundreds of military bases around the world, which seriously threatens world security, and what qualifications does it have to "remind other countries" in this kind of thing.
In fact, as early as the United States, Australia and New Zealand hyped up the "China Security Agreement", the Chinese side has already responded, "saying that the military base that China wants to build is a false news fabricated by some people with ulterior motives, which is an attempt to stir up trouble and create tension in the South Pacific region." When the French side was forced to be anxious, it even directly broke the news to the outside world, saying that when there was a riot in Solomon last year, Australia, which came to maintain order, made it clear that "the troops will not protect Chinese facilities." It is not difficult to think that they came to "peacekeeping" with a clear purpose, not really for Solomon's safety.
Australia has been pouring dirty water on China on this matter recently, and even key politicians have been shouting about it, mainly because of a special background - the Australian general election will be held on May 21. The general elections in Western countries have a very strange "commonality", "China topic" is particularly attractive, "tough on China" will get more voters' attention, Australia is no exception.
So in the election campaign, Morrison, who is seeking re-election, and the opposition party, the Labor Party, have talked about the "Central Security Agreement", Morrison claimed that "Solomon's cooperation with China will increase the insecurity factor in the South Pacific region"; and the Labor Party said that the current Australian government has increased China's influence in the South Pacific region, and there are practical actions, which is the Australian government's "biggest failure after World War II". Both sides want to use this topic to increase the heat, suppress the other, and pull more supporters for themselves.
But Morrison seems to have forgotten that Australia just formed an AUKUS alliance with the United States and Britain last year, and even as a non-nuclear country, it has to import as many as 8 nuclear submarines from the United States and Britain. Such a move not only really puts the security of the South Pacific region at great risk, but also seriously violates the United Nations Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In order to cooperate with the United States in targeting China, Australia also allowed the United States to build a military base in northern Australia and prepare to hoard a large amount of military supplies. While quietly turning its country into a "powder keg" and turning the South Pacific into a land of right and wrong, the Morrison administration also pretended to "care" for Solomon, viciously hyped up "China's construction of military bases to affect the security of the South Pacific", and played such a small trick of "thieves shouting to catch thieves", is it too underestimating the intelligence of the international community?