ANALYSIS – As I have written here and here, Communist China has just signed a new security pact with longtime American ally in the South Pacific, the Solomon Islands, giving it a beachhead for expanded naval operations across the Pacific.
The site of a major WWII naval battle, the Solomon Islands is strategically located on the doorstep of Australia and New Zealand.
This new Chinese deal potentially also places Chinese military assets far nearer to Guam, with its strategic U.S. military bases in the Western Pacific, than ever before.
And despite its significance and President Biden’s frenzied last minute diplomatic efforts, he proved powerless to stop it.
As Politico’s China Watcher newsletter notes:
A furious, late effort by the Biden administration to pry the Solomon Islands away from a deal with China was in vain. That failure is heaping pressure on the White House to make sure more dominoes don’t fall.
It adds:
The agreement — sealed despite objections from the U.S., Australia, Japan and New Zealand — constitutes a rebuke of U.S. diplomatic disengagement with Oceania in recent decades that has created an opportunity for China to boost its influence in the region.
The strategic value of this victory for China cannot be underestimated. Derek Grossman, senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation notes in Politico:
The Chinese are students of history … and trying to prevent us from using any second island chain against them. For them to be able to use it first against us is at the forefront of their minds when it comes to Oceania.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price echoed that sentiment when he said Monday: “We believe that signing such an agreement could increase destabilization within the Solomon Islands and will set a concerning precedent for the wider Pacific Island region.”
But there were blunter assessments on Capitol Hill with Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) saying:
Given the islands’ strategic location, the [Chinese Communist Party] obviously wants to use the Solomons as a strategic asset to upend the military stability of the Indo-Pacific.
And the timing of Solomon Islands’ signing of the deal by controversial Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare was a slap in the face to Biden as he preempted a visit by Biden emissaries.
As China Watch reports:
Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale said the government accelerated the agreement’s signing prior to the arrival in Solomon Islands this week of a U.S. government delegation led by Kurt Campbell, the National Security Council’s Indo-Pacific coordinator, and Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
To embarrass Biden even more, Politico reports:
China’s Foreign Ministry rubbed salt in the wound over the tardy diplomatic pile-on. “Several senior US officials now fancy a visit to some [Pacific island countries] all of a sudden after all these years … do they have ulterior motives?” spokesperson Wang Wenbin said Tuesday.
Along with Biden’s disastrous defense budget that utterly fails to upgrade the U.S. Navy to face China’s mushrooming fleet, Biden’s inaction in the face of China’s growing network of ‘bases’ is creating a fatal mix of dangers for America that may be exploding sooner rather than later.
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Biden is an incompetent jerk off! Nothing more to say.
Nothing more need be said!
Or maybe he is a competent clandestine ally of China. His son Hunter sold China a cobalt mine in the “Democratic Republic” of the Congo, which has two-thirds of the world’s known reserves of cobalt. Cobalt is indispensable in electronics and other high-tech applications such as solar panels.
Get BIDEN out of the office he is brain dead and is killing this country.
Jesus someone get rid of this idiot
Biden couldn’t win a game of checkers against a 6 month old!
The clown resident in the WH is going to get us all killed!
Biden is a total worthless idiot who should be impeached before it’s too late!
[China humiliates Biden once again…]
Biden humiliates himself, so what’s new…
Biden is so incompetent, he needs to be removed post haste! He is NO leader, he is a coward with a big mouth, that he can’t back up much like his so called mentor Obama! They both think “ talking tough” makes them look like bad arses, when in reality it makes them look like schoolyard bullies! They both need to stfu and go away!
Yet, Biden doesn’t care if he’s humiliated or shamed by China or Russia, just as long as the checks are good!
& take over what was Tarawa as well
The Chicoms just “bought” this valuable real estate, which is conquest without conflict.
Biden is senile, corrupt and incompetent. My 7 year old grandson could do better.
Yes, we need to “get rid” of Biden so Kamela Harris can “run” the country.
Seriously? What’s the difference? Their billionaire, communist Democrat backers are the ones running America now. How do we “get rid” of them?
We “got rid” of our Real Leader, Jesus Christ, who only backs righteousness. Evil is the only alternative, and America has been embracing the devil for so long she no longer knows good from evil, so has no way to repent. It would appear that our end is closer than our beginning. Everyone – worldwide – will suffer!
Joe does China’s Biden does it again.
Why does he want to destroy America so badly?