Solomon Islands accepts Chinese offer for riot police help, A move on from Sino-Samoan relations and the Asau Military Port Proposal. By Tim Brian Tufuga


Three months earlier.....
100 Australian Federal Police and AFD Soldiers arrived to quell a riot.....soon afterwards, China offered their military police presence which was warmly accepted.
Today, the Chinese Government has moved to establish a military presence with the contruction of a military base in the Solomon Islands, signally the end of Australian Hegemonic leadership in the Pacific region.
Similarly, in 2018, China also asked to construct a military base at my ancestral Village of Asau, in Samoa, right on my GrandUncle's land in Utuloa, Asau, Savaii, where a unusued Wharf may serve as a Chinese Military base in the near future. At the time, I had written an article on the proposal which I had alerted a school mate of mine, and an ADF Army Colonel of the proposal, through sharing my article. The proposal was soon declined by the then Samoan HRPP Government.
It appears that the Solomon Islanders have stolen the thunder away from the Samoans and have preempted the Samoan Chinese military base and will establish the First Chinese Military base in the South Pacific in the Solomon Islands instead, much to shock and chagrine of the Australian Govenrment.
Incidently, the proposal seems to have coincided with the Chinese and Russian progressive partnership to distance themselves from Europe and the West, and instead, the Chinese and Russians have urgently decided to consolidate their regional influences with non-western partners. In the South Pacific, the Chinese Strings of Pearls Policy has suddenly been bolstered with the Chinese Government's new found convivial and cordial relationship with the Solomon Island Government, which has stolen the thunder and the Most Favoured Nation status for Sino-Samoan relations in the Pacific.

Samoa has suddenly been overlooked by the Chinese Government in favour of the Solomon Islands, which seems very strange since this sudden friendly relationship has only been very recent whereas the Sino-Samoan relations have been forged decades earlier since 1976.
For the Sino-Samoan relationship, the Solomon Island Chinese Military base may be a launching platform for further Chinese military and diplomatic presence within the Pacific Region which will no doubt also be within arms reach to Samoa as Samoa is still regarded warmly by the Chinese Government, perhaps, moreso, than the Solomon Islanders, due to the nearly half a century of friendly relationship.
Tim TufugaTim Brian Tufuga

Tim Tufuga 25th March, 2022.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Samoa_relations#:~:text=Samoa%20and%20China%20(PRC)%20established,in%20Samoa%20is%20Ma%20Chongren.

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