Going to plant a nice big naval base there. I’d be worried too.
The new “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere”
Na, the Chinese Communist Party plans to strip the Island to the waterline ,LOL
Guadalcanal II.
Since Oz has gone lefty the Chicoms can have em.
Why lease an island if they can just build their own?
This is no big deal!
Just because thousands of Americans fought and died for these islands means nothing!
What’s important is that we support our great trading “partner” - the Communist Tyrannocracy known as “the People’s Republic” - in their quest for world domination!
Cuz it’ll help Wall St! And that’s all that matters! Right up to the day the PLA storms the gates of Lower Manhattan!
/rant off
Don’t worry Australia, New Zealand’s Navy got your back /s
On another note - If Japan would have just “leased” some of the Island in the South Pacific they could have avoided that big nasty war. also /s
Just get New Zealand’s navy to love them to death.
I expect this island to militarized in no time, like the Spratleys and this time the airport will be expanded to accommodate military aircraft.
America is being totally deceived and misdirected by the left to keep dithering in the Mideast as China is making its move in the Pacific.
I wonder how the Marines that fought there would respond if you told them a bunch of Ivy League mba pig-f*ckers would be selling those islands to the Chinese in exchange for cheap plastic trinkets.
And at the end of the 75 years, they will NOT turn it over, as the Brits did with Hong Kong.