Biden admin threatens response if China militarizes Solomon Islands
President Joe Biden's administration on Friday threatened to "respond accordingly" if China establishes a permanent military base in the Solomon Islands after the two nations signed a security agreement last month that will allow China to maintain armed police and resupply its visiting warships.
"If steps are taken to establish a de facto permanent military presence, power-projection capabilities, or a military installation, the delegation noted that the United States would then have significant concerns and respond accordingly," the White House said in a statement on Friday.
The statement came while announcing senior administration officials' visit to the Solomon Islands where they met with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and "engaged in substantial discussion" about the agreement signed with China.
"Solomon Islands representatives indicated that the agreement had solely domestic applications, but the U.S. delegation noted there are potential regional security implications of the accord, including for the United States and its allies and partners," the statement added.
A leaked draft of the China-Solomon Islands deal ahead of its signing stipulated that China would be permitted to send security personnel armed with pistols, rifles, machine guns and a sniper rifle to the Solomon Islands after riots broke out in Honiara near the Chinese embassy last year.
The draft also said China would be allowed to "make ship visits to, carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in Solomon Islands"
Although a final draft of the agreement has not yet been released, Solomon Islands officials said they had accepted China's terms without objection because they "could not guarantee the safety of the [Chinese] Embassy and staff."
Shades of the Imperial Japanese "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"!
For those who need a fuckin' history lesson, in 1942 the Japanese committed their finest troops to Guadalcanal because it was a dagger to the throat of the supply lines between the US and Australia.
The Japanese bled themselves dry trying to hold it while we fought pitched naval battles including the largest at sea defeat in USN history at Savo where we lost 4 heavy cruisers with a 5th damaged in one night.
We fought them in the Solomons for a year to break their offensive and end the threat to Australia.
This could prove catastrophic once the chi-coms say FU to Tater and do what they want. I mean what is Tater going to do, to assign Kamala to word salad them to death?
Chinese missiles, radars, sigint, elint, and recon assets in the Solomons would allow them to strike every US and Australian base in the Pacific with theater ballistic missiles instead of ICBMs, including Pearl Harbor, and to attack our carriers with DF-21s outside the 1st island chain (South China Sea) where they might have been safe. It also gives them a forward base for both their attack and missile subs.
President Joe Biden's administration on Friday threatened to "respond accordingly" if China establishes a permanent military base in the Solomon Islands after the two nations signed a security agreement last month that will allow China to maintain armed police and resupply its visiting warships.
"If steps are taken to establish a de facto permanent military presence, power-projection capabilities, or a military installation, the delegation noted that the United States would then have significant concerns and respond accordingly," the White House said in a statement on Friday.
The statement came while announcing senior administration officials' visit to the Solomon Islands where they met with Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and "engaged in substantial discussion" about the agreement signed with China.
"Solomon Islands representatives indicated that the agreement had solely domestic applications, but the U.S. delegation noted there are potential regional security implications of the accord, including for the United States and its allies and partners," the statement added.
A leaked draft of the China-Solomon Islands deal ahead of its signing stipulated that China would be permitted to send security personnel armed with pistols, rifles, machine guns and a sniper rifle to the Solomon Islands after riots broke out in Honiara near the Chinese embassy last year.
The draft also said China would be allowed to "make ship visits to, carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in Solomon Islands"
Although a final draft of the agreement has not yet been released, Solomon Islands officials said they had accepted China's terms without objection because they "could not guarantee the safety of the [Chinese] Embassy and staff."
Shades of the Imperial Japanese "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"!
For those who need a fuckin' history lesson, in 1942 the Japanese committed their finest troops to Guadalcanal because it was a dagger to the throat of the supply lines between the US and Australia.
The Japanese bled themselves dry trying to hold it while we fought pitched naval battles including the largest at sea defeat in USN history at Savo where we lost 4 heavy cruisers with a 5th damaged in one night.
We fought them in the Solomons for a year to break their offensive and end the threat to Australia.
This could prove catastrophic once the chi-coms say FU to Tater and do what they want. I mean what is Tater going to do, to assign Kamala to word salad them to death?
Chinese missiles, radars, sigint, elint, and recon assets in the Solomons would allow them to strike every US and Australian base in the Pacific with theater ballistic missiles instead of ICBMs, including Pearl Harbor, and to attack our carriers with DF-21s outside the 1st island chain (South China Sea) where they might have been safe. It also gives them a forward base for both their attack and missile subs.
