The Government of the Solomon Islands has informed the United States that the Solomon Islands has banned United States Naval vessels from entering its ports. All maritime military visits will cease until the new reception process is updated. In addition, the Solomon Islands Prime Minister's Office said that in order to establish its own forces to independently supervise the exclusive economic zone, the Solomon Islands has suspended the entry of all foreign naval vessels into its waters, and they must wait for the approval process through the new port visit.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat "Oliver Henry", which conducted illegal fishing patrols in the South Pacific, was denied access to solomon islands ports on the grounds of "routine" docking, Reuters reported. The U.S. Coast Guard responded that the Oliver Henry patrolling the Solomon Islands area needed to replenish reserves such as fuel and food and therefore wanted to enter port Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, but the Solomon Islands did not respond to the U.S. request for refueling and supplies.
In addition to the U.S. warships, the British Navy patrol ship HMS Spey was also denied entry into port by the Solomon government, and the Royal Navy said in a statement that the HMS Spey carried Fijian naval officers on patrol missions with long-range maritime patrol aircraft from Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. Coast Guard to board suspicious vessels at sea, and subsequent requests for "routine" docking in the port of the Solomon Islands were also denied.
The day after the Solomon Islands government notified the United States to ban warships from entering its port, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare said the government had asked partners to give the country some time to review and implement the new procedures proposed by the solo authorities before issuing further requests for military vessels to enter the country. Solomon Islands wanted to establish its own forces to administer the exclusive economic zone, so these regulations would apply to all visiting naval vessels. That is, the Solomon Islands will ban the entry of all foreign warships, including Chinese and American warships.
In response to the denial of access by U.S. and British patrol vessels, Sogavare issued a statement saying that the problems encountered by U.S. and British vessels in recent docks at Honiara were largely due to failure to send appropriate information to the prime minister's office in a timely manner. The statement also said that in the past year, foreign vessels have repeatedly entered solomon islands waters without issuing diplomatic applications.
Judging from Sogavare's statement, the US patrol ships unscrupulously ran to the exclusive economic zone, vigorously engaged in long-arm jurisdiction to carry out so-called "law enforcement", and then, without prior notice, prepared to enter the port without authorization in the name of so-called "routine docking" for replenishment. The U.S. practice is tantamount to the robbery of running to someone's house to get something without saying hello, and it proves that the United States has completely failed to regard the Solomon Islands as an independent sovereign state. Recently, the United States and Australia have also continuously interfered in the internal affairs of the Taiwanese side, wantonly speculating about the security agreements signed in the country, demanding that the Country stop cooperation with China, and the Taiwan side is also very angry about this, and has to take defensive measures to prohibit all foreign warships from docking.
The United States not only did not recognize its own mistakes, but instead hit a rake and threw all the responsibility on China, and a spokesman for the US State Department called it "regrettable" that the "Oliver Henry" did not obtain permission to dock. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby was even more vocal, claiming that China was trying to "bully and coerce" countries in the Indo-Pacific region to obey orders, and John Kirby also described serving national security interests as "selfish" and not serving the broader interests of what the United States calls a free and open Indo-Pacific.
This move also fully reflects the "double standard" of the United States, John Kirby disregards the selfish policy of "America first" implemented by the United States itself, but instead calls the practice of safeguarding its own interests "selfish", and even began to think about the "collective interests" of the Indo-Pacific region, once again exposing the ugly face of the United States that "only state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps".
In stark contrast to the U.S. attitude, China signed a framework agreement on security cooperation with the Solomon Islands in April. China will help solomon islands develop its economy and maintain social order and stability, but this security agreement of equality, mutual benefit and respect for the wishes of the people has been wantonly smeared by the United States and the West, and the Chinese and Chinese governments have repeatedly spoken out about the false news of "China's military bases built by China" hyped by the West.
It can be seen from this that the Solomon Islands government banned all foreign warships from entering the country, mainly to prevent Western interference, after all, the United States and Australia even threatened to promote a coup in the country, ready to collude with the opposition and oust the current Sogavare government from power in order to "curb" China's influence. The Solomon administration only showed that the ban was aimed at all countries, even China, only to show that the ban was aimed at all countries, even China, and did not play a balance before China and the United States.
In addition, Sogavare said in the statement that the Solomon Islands government wants to build its own national management capacity, and once the measures are in place, the decision to stop the docking of foreign warships will be canceled. China can also provide assistance within the framework of security cooperation so that it can have the ability to safeguard its national interests and sovereignty.