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ACuriousPLAFan

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U.S. warns of China threat in first Pacific islands strategy​

Biden administration plans to open 3 embassies in region to bolster influence.

NEW YORK -- The White House released its first strategy dedicated to the Pacific islands on Thursday as it looks to strengthen its broader Indo-Pacific strategy and counter China's growing influence in the region.

The strategy focuses on climate change, maritime issues like unregulated fishing, and expanding the U.S. diplomatic presence in the region, which the strategy says has become increasingly affected by the broader geopolitical competition playing out in the Pacific.

"Increasingly, those impacts include pressure and economic coercion by the People's Republic of China, which risks undermining the peace, prosperity, and security of the region, and by extension, of the United States," the document says.

The White House also announced $810 million in additional aid including $600 million dedicated to economic development and climate resilience for the region, which is home to island nations that are vulnerable to rising seas.

The U.S. will reopen an embassy in the Solomon Islands that had closed in 1993 and develop plans to open two others in Kiribati and Tonga -- all of which have diplomatic relations with Beijing. Washington will also recognize the Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign states.

The strategy also includes plans to expand training by the U.S. Coast Guard on maritime security.

The announcement comes during the second and final day of the Pacific Islands Country Summit in Washington, where U.S. President Joe Biden and his team are working to reassert the U.S. in a region where China has been making diplomatic inroads.

Biden is set to address the summit on Thursday.

The summit includes leaders from Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia and New Caledonia.

Last week the Marshall Islands -- a longtime American ally -- withdrew from negotiations with the U.S. over its Compact of Free Association security agreement, which expires next year.

This year the Solomon Islands signed a security pact with China and ahead of the summit declined to sign a declaration on U.S. partnership with the region.

A senior Biden administration official this week downplayed any differences with the island nation, saying "the Solomons have been actively engage in all the efforts that we've been involved with."

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LMFAO.

Sounds like a series of desperate, panicking, copium-fueled reactions by Washington DC towards Beijing's effort in widening her diplomatic circle across the Pacific.

Apart from the rabid decision of DC to reopen the US Embassy in the Solomon Islands after a solid fvck1ng 3 decades and opening 2 more in Kiribati and Tonga that is just outright funny - The recognition of Cook Islands and Niue as sovereign nations by the US only now are just pure hilarious.

So what did the US see Cook Islands and Niue as over the past decades? Some floating rocks in the middle of fvck1ng nowhere of the vast Pacific?

All of these portray only one thing - The US would never give any real jacksh1t to those Pacific Island nations. In fact, I believe this idea can be projected across the rest of the Global South.

It was only because of an increasingly stronger and more powerful China, alongside China's growing presence and influence in the Pacific region that the US is now "forced to" hurriedly trying to "buy" as many those Pacific island nations over to their side.

Why? Simple, really - In case Washington desires, the US could very well "transform" those Pacific island nations into just more US military bases that would be hosting more US weapon stockpiles, more US warplanes, more US warships, and even nuclear-tipped IRBMs and HGV/HCMs. If any of those Pacific island nations disagree, just coup them (like how things have always been done since the 1950s).

If there's any Pacific islander in this forum who are pro-China, then I am deeply sorry to say this - Unless there is some kind of a godly intervention from the alien species, the Pacific island nations' weak puny a$$ populace and military could never hurt the US at all. Meanwhile, the PLA still hasn't reach the required strength in order to openly challenge the US military across the Pacific (and defend those Pacific island nations when things come to shove).

In fact, I truly believe that if China of today is still the China of the 1960s or 1990s, the US would give not give a rat's arse to those Pacific island nations even if they are getting submerged completely from the effects of global warming and climate change.

Therefore, my message to China is this - I hope you know what needs to be done.

This is a war for survival for China, and for the Global South too.
 
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Abominable

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That , I believe, is the case in the US - less so in Europe.

Before the war , fruit and vegetables were definitely cheaper -certainly relative to processed "junk" food- in Europe than in the US.

As to why Britain's obesity rates seem to be halfway between those of the US and mainland Europe, I'm not quite sure.
It 100% true in Europe too, especially the UK. Cheaper food is more unhealthy than expensive food.

I don't think we'll see a famine in the UK but we'll certainly be seeing malnutrition. Over the past 5 years there's evidence of that already with increasing infant mortality rates, with mass inflation it'll only get worse.
 

pmc

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South Korea or any country for that matter own interest surpass any delusion or hysteria that the Americans hawks have over China.
South Korea will have to subordinate more to survive as high income country and still accept more debt.
I am sure it understand what it has to do for stable supply in addition to stable price.
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sunnymaxi

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has someone posted this before.

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