The response has kinda cooled abit since. The murdoch media umbrella obviously hyping it and leading the charge. But SMH has more muted follow up. Russo Ukraine war is back leading the headlines.Rules for thee, not for me lol
Anyways lets see what they are gonna do I suppose.
My perspective on this after following local media on China almost daily is they are surprised and also not that surprised by this news. For long time, we have constant hyping up of China threat in our media. Not that long ago, we have also seen multiple reports of China increasing their presence in Aussie "back yard" ie. Oceania and Australia see its as a threat.
At first I just dismissed it as another of their anti china paranoia along with their media reports of chinese interference on aus domestic politics, Chinese spying, politicians with shady links to Chinese tycoons etc. that were supposedly briefed by aus intelligence
Maybe this time they actually know something instead of rumour mongering of China threat. Probably not discussion of a security pact or a base but something big already.
The election is close so this will be interesting. News out today is the newly installed Chinese ambassador to Australia was seeking a meeting with scomo but was declined. I dun know if this was after or before the news of Solomon Island came out though.