Posted on 07/16/2023 7:23:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China and the Solomon Islands on Monday signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership", four years after the Pacific nation switched ties from Taiwan to China.
The police cooperation pact was among nine deals signed after Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, underlining his nation's foreign policy shift.
Sogavare arrived in China on Sunday for his first visit since the two countries struck a security pact last year, to the alarm of the United States and neighbours including Australia.
"In just four years, the relationship between China and the Solomon Islands has developed rapidly, and we can now say that it is very fruitful," Li told Sogavare.
Sogavare, in turn, thanked China for its role in addressing global challenges including peace and sustainable development. He added that his country had "a lot to learn" from China's experience.
A spokesperson for the U.S. National Security Council said Washington "respects the ability of nations to make sovereign decisions in the best interests of their people" while encouraging the sides "to release these texts immediately to increase transparency and inform discussions about the impacts of these agreements on regional security."
The official added that the U.S. was committed to a strong relationship with the region and strengthening longstanding bonds with the people of Solomon Islands.
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May China take Siberia from russia soon.
I think Taiwan will go before Siberia.
The bigger question is, “When will the US recognize the Independence of Taiwan?”
So you work for the Chinese then? You wish for the greatest threat to America to take land from Russia? How could that be to our benefit?
Neocons are stupid, rabid scum.
russia and China at odds with each other is a good thing
Yeah, the Chinese are going to invade their ally, who happens to be the number one nuclear power on earth. The Chinese are really famously short sighted. They would never think to say “Say, you have a lot of gas, oil, minerals, timber etc. And we have a lot of manufacturing capacity. Let’s make some deals and agreements. By the way, need some drones, arty ammo and chips?”
May it be so! LOL
You comment like a moron with the political instincts of rock.
I guess I'm not the only Freeper to notice Sunsong's moronic overuse of “May it be so!”
Why invade when you can buy & bribe your way into control?
You invade you break things. The Chinese want hegemony not physical occupation. Physical occupation is so last century. The Chinese want a form of colonization where they reap the commercial benefits and bought-off “round eyes” do all the grubby governing stuff.
Blows my mind that just because the Neocons seem to get off on starting wars all over the world and killing millions of people - some here think other countries are into that.
But bad news for them. That’s not the case, and China will CERTAINLY not attack Russia, risking a nuclear war*, as long Russia is willing to supply them with with what they need at a reasonable price.
*this may surprise some here, but China actually does understand the implications of a nuclear war.
And what kind of idiot wants to make the Chinese even more powerful by wishing for ChiCom control of Siberia? A neocon idiot?
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