Recently, the South Pacific Islands nation of Solomon Islands has once again reported good news, with Chinese enterprises signing a significant telecommunications project contract with the country, with a total value of about 450 million yuan, and Chinese enterprises will build 161 signal towers for them. As soon as the news came out, Australia was sour again. Australian mainstream media claimed that this would pose a so-called "significant financial risk", once again hyping up the so-called "debt trap". However, in the face of many facts, the so-called "debt trap" of China hyped by the West has long been punctured, but it is the Western neoliberal economic system that is the real "debt trap".
With about 450 million yuan of loans provided by China with only 1% interest rate and a maturity of up to 20 years, how can the Australian media say that this is a "debt trap"? The economic and social benefits are even more immeasurable, the current Internet penetration rate in solomon Islands is less than 30%, and the more than 100 signal towers that Chinese enterprises will build will increase coverage for public service agencies, schools, hospitals and other services across the country. Australia, on the other hand, has built only 6 signal towers in the Solomon Islands and has been preventing communications and cooperation. As early as 2017, Huawei and the Solomon Islands reached a cooperation on submarine cables, Australia has been obstructing, and directly forced the Sydney to Honiara submarine cable project from Huawei to grab its own hands, and along with the United States on the grounds of "national security" to ban Huawei's 5G participation in Australian network construction, and the Australian telecommunications company giant also acquired communications operations in Pacific island countries to prevent Chinese companies from bidding.
And Australia is doing all this, that is, to put the network construction of the South Pacific Island countries in the hands of Australian enterprises, why should it do this? Referring to the United States in Europe to engage in network construction, after the exposure of the Prism Gate, what virtues the members of the "Five Eyes Alliance" are, everyone knows what virtues, so they are so reluctant to China to engage in network construction in other countries, you Chinese equipment came over, how can we still do surveillance in other countries in the future? It turns out that without that diamond diamond, don't take that porcelain work, what can Australia do with a few signal towers that have been searched and built? I only think about how to control other countries, but I am reluctant to invest in helping its economic development, or I don't want to let it develop at all, for fear that I can't control it when I develop, so I will be so sour.
Since China and the Solomon Islands signed a security agreement, the little-known Solomon Islands have immediately become guests of honor for the United States and Australia, and senior American officials and senior Australian officials have come to visit in an endless stream, with the obvious purpose of breaking up cooperation between China and the Solomon Islands, preventing China from exerting influence in the South Pacific Island countries, and even speculating that China will build a military base there. They are closely concerned about every move in China and the Solomon Islands, and the mere communication cooperation has left them with nervous breakdown. However, it is difficult to prevent "family thieves" from all kinds of prevention, and their own people want to join forces with China to "steal a wave of homes".
Recently, the Australian Prime Minister said that Australia is facing multiple challenges from China. Owners of some islands and reefs are threatening the government with the intention of selling to China 21 coral atolls off Australia's east coast, between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, near australia's main shipping lane and three large data cables transmitting data along the seabed. The owners are threatening to sell them to Chinese buyers if the Australian government does not respond. But the Prime Minister believes that if the Australian government compromises, it will set a terrible precedent, because there are more than 500 islands in the region, and Australia cannot buy all of them at a high price, just so that China cannot get one of them.
This wave belongs to the use of magic to defeat magic, and the capitalists see no state but only interests. And if China buys these strategically located coral atolls and islands, and does whatever it wants, it is equivalent to directly reaching the third island chain delineated by the United States, which will have a great impact on the US Indo-Pacific strategy, and Australia will be more worried, and it wants this effect. Australia's history of domination in the southern hemisphere is long overdue. (A Dream)