On April 17, China signed a bilateral cooperation security agreement with the Solomon Islands, which is no longer news, but it does not prevent Australian Prime Minister Morrison from speaking out.
On April 24, Morrison said, "If China establishes a military base in the Solomon Islands, it will violate the red line between Australia and the United States, and we will not let China's military naval base appear at the doorstep of our region." He said it was a common concern of Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. He did not say how Australia would react, instead stressing that Solomon leaders had told him that such a situation would not happen.
In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on April 25 that "China-security cooperation" is based on the principle of mutual equality and mutual benefit and win-win results, which is within the scope of the sovereignty of the two countries, open and transparent, reasonable and legal. The claim that China is building military bases is completely false news. The United States also claims that China's strengthening of its military presence in the Solomon Islands will raise major concerns for the United States. According to the logic of the US side, the United States has built nearly 800 military bases in more than 80 countries and regions around the world, which has long aroused major concern in the world.
The new cooperation between China and Solomon is of great concern to the United States, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. The four countries met in Hawaii on April 19 to express concern about the risks posed by the "China-Pacific Security Agreement" to the Indo-Pacific region. In response, Solomon Prime Minister Sogavare said on April 20 that Solomon reached an agreement with China with his eyes wide open.
In fact, as early as 2019, after China established diplomatic relations with the Solomon Islands and Kiribati, some Australian media speculated about China, saying that China is friendly with the Pacific island countries, and its forces will break through the second island chain of the US strategic blockade and approach the third island chain. At that time, some scholars even speculated that if China established a naval ocean-going supply base, it would directly impact the control of the United States and Australia over nearby waters. They even said that Kiribati is an important receiving station for synchronous satellites, and if China rebuilds satellite stations here, it will be of great help to China's space war with the United States.
After the signing of the security agreement, some Australian politicians believe that China is to break through the strategic island chain blockade between the United States and Australia, so as to continue to advance to the eastern Pacific Ocean and completely reverse the disadvantages of the triangle game.
The reason why Australian politicians and media have such remarks is inseparable from the brainwashing of the people by the Australian government over the years.
In recent years, Australia has lost its autonomy and independence in diplomacy, followed the United States in the "clouds of the clouds," and acted as the "vanguard" of the Us strategy to suppress China. The consequence of this is to lose friendly relations with China and abandon many trade exchanges with China, and such a China policy has seriously damaged the vital interests of Australians and made the people no longer trust the current Australian government.
And whenever there is a disturbance, the Australian government will talk about China and throw all the problems to China.
Australia will hold a general election on May 21, and Morrison's biggest rival is the leader of the largest opposition Labour Party, Abanes, and how to reverse these negative situations will be a real test of the candidates' strategy under the pressure of the epidemic, natural disasters and inflation. With Labour currently holding 53 per cent of the support and Morrison's ruling coalition now having 47 per cent of the support, the Australian government is likely to change.
So, in order to seek re-election, it is not surprising that Morrison has occasionally made crazy remarks.
In order to be re-elected, The current Minister of Defence of Australia, Peter Dutton, is also constantly staging anti-China drama.
Recently, Dutton said worriedly that due to China's growing military strength and strategic position, Australia can already imagine a chemical weapons attack on Sydney or the capital of an allied country in a certain region, just like the conflict in the Middle East.
As we all know, during World War II, China was devastated by the chemical weapons of the Japanese invaders, and China would never use chemical weapons, which are non-humanitarian weapons of mass destruction.
Dutton may have forgotten how Australian special forces brutalized local Iraqi civilians.
And in order to play up his "China threat theory", Dutton also said that the security agreement signed between China and the Solomon Islands was a "bribe" to the Solomon government, which the Australian government would never do.
The Australian Labour Party criticized that climate change has caused frequent victims to Pacific island countries, but the Australian government has cut back on aid to island countries in recent years, which has made the Solomon Islands no longer trust Australia.
However, Australia is not without clear-eyed people.
Recently, an Australian Green Party mp named Jordan Steele John publicly stated: "China is not a military threat to Australia" and "The future of Taiwan is not a direct concern of Australia or the United States." He also criticised the Liberal Australia-National coalition and the Labour Party for making Australia an "Aircraft Carrier of the United States", exacerbating tensions between Canberra and Beijing. (Inoue Frog)