The AUKUS Security Pact: Technology and Militarizing Australia

The AUKUS Security Pact: Technology and Militarizing Australia

Think tanks across Australia, tanked with cash from US sources and keen to think in furious agreement, are all showing how delighted they are with the AUKUS security pact and what potential it has for local, if subordinated industry.  The United States Studies Centre, a loudspeaker for Washington’s opinions based at the University of Sydney,…

China-Solomon Islands Relations will Change the Balance of Powers in the Pacific

China-Solomon Islands Relations will Change the Balance of Powers in the Pacific

In April 2022, the world learned that China and the Solomon Islands had concluded a framework security treaty allowing China to deploy its naval forces in a small but strategically important nation in Oceania, just 2,000 km off the coast of the largest state in the South Pacific, Australia. At this point, however, the Chinese…

Australia Chases the Dragon

Australia Chases the Dragon

Despite the Labour Party winning their recent election, Australia remains NATO’s aggressive pit bull in the Southern Seas, Declan Hayes writes. Despite the Labour Party winning their recent election, Australia remains NATO’s aggressive pit bull in the Southern Seas. No sooner had the Labor Party regained power but Penny Wong, their new Foreign Minister was,…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Tour of Pacific Ocean Nations

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s Tour of Pacific Ocean Nations

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s ten-day tour of a number of countries in the Pacific Ocean, which began on May 26, has provoked considerable commotion in the camp of Beijing’s regional opponents. The words “led by the United States” would be logical, and generally speaking, corresponds to fundamental realities. Yet, when we look at the…

China’s Pacific Islands Position Paper Debunks Fake News Claims

China’s Pacific Islands Position Paper Debunks Fake News Claims

What’s most significant about this document is that it represents a new model of international cooperation, especially between asymmetrically sized countries. The Chinese Foreign Ministry released a position paper on the country’s relations with the ten Pacific Island Countries (PICs) that have diplomatic relations with Beijing. It comes as Foreign Minister Wang Yi wraps up…

It’s Ridiculous That the EU Considers the China-Solomon Islands Pact a Security Threat

It’s Ridiculous That the EU Considers the China-Solomon Islands Pact a Security Threat

What these observations go to show is that the EU is taking advantage of the Australian and American hype over China’s soft security deal with the Solomon Islands to sell the bloc’s preplanned military expansion to the Asia-Pacific to its people who might otherwise not have supported it. China’s soft security pact with the Solomon…