Posted on 04/24/2022 5:24:40 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declared on Sunday that a Chinese military base on the Solomon Islands would be an unacceptable 'red line', without adding how Canberra would retaliate, media reports said.
Morrison's government and the US are scrambling to respond to a recently-signed security deal between the islands and Beijing, which they consider an 'aggressive' move, RT reported.
'Working together with our partners in New Zealand and of course the United States, I share the same red line that the United States has when it comes to these issues,' Morrison said. 'We won't be having Chinese military naval bases in our region on our doorstep.'
A tiny archipelago sitting around 2,000km off the northeastern coast of Australia, the Solomon Islands made international news last week when it signed a security pact with China. With the island nation reeling from violent protests last year, the deal - according to a leaked draft of the agreement - promises Chinese assistance in 'maintaining social order' and allows China's warships to dock at its ports, RT reported.
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What are you going to do about it, Australia?
You’re military budget is being spent on socialized medicine, like all socialist countries do.
I see red lines everywhere. I wanna take the blue pill so everything will appear fine in the matrix.
what are you prepared to do diggers?
What do the folks in the Solomon’s think? They must have it out for the haloes.
If I can make a suggestion to Australia, start building nukes.
I read that the Soloman Islands rejected the Chinese plan over a month ago.
Yeah. What’s the big deal?
Just because shortly after Pearl Harbor, Japan occupied the British Solomon Islands and built naval facilities and runways?
Lol that’s funny!
The nazi island wants to tell China who it can associate with 🤪
The Soloman Islands turned down the Chinese plan.
So why does Australia need an opinion?
Guadalcanal all over again?
So the Aussies are going to threaten the Chinks with what, chopping them up in their worthless wind turbines or incinerating them in their giant Lithium storage batteries.
So they call it a social club, instead of a Military base.
The Chinese buy off politicians, and then have their way with the place. They will denude the fish stocks, operate their own mines, and build the facilities that their Military can drop right into - ports, airfields, warehouses, underground “hospitals” and such.
Probably invite them to Australia and let the continent try and kill them like it does to everybody.
….and he would do what….?
New Zealand had coast watchers on the Solomons during WWII one of them was my uncle ...
I think Aussie had some there too ...
The Solomons are vital for the area for its closeness to Aussie...
The Japanese thought so and so do the Chinese ...
Because the Chinese are a threat.
But wait! I thought the civilized and elite of the world had already made that decision when Russia told Ukraine (a sovereign country) they could not join NATO. No way Hosea! You can’t do that. Nobody tells another country who they can be buddies with.
Oh. That was then an now is now.
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