The Solomon Islands invited the Chinese and signed a security pact.
“The Solomon Islands invited the Chinese and signed a security pact.”
Pretty much. Yep.
The issue is a questionable government in the Solomons that has been leveraging foreign power to itself remain in power.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of the Solomons is correctly defending his country from unwanted and illegal immigration from other countries and when liberal Western countries like Australia balked at the politically incorrect notion of national sovereignty China saw an opportunity.
The Chinese have offered a security pact to preserve the Solomons for the Solomon people (at least for now) and this also gives China a base in the region to threaten longtime adversary Australia.
While I am not supporting China here I am definitely assigning blame to Australia for expecting the Solomons to tolerate a level of illegal immigration and colonization that Australia itself will not tolerate.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare is often accused of being corrupt and that may well be. But such accusations these days are often mere propaganda so forgive me if I do not consider these epithets as meaningful for this discussion.
Are you saying that the United States should pay no mind to foreign affairs?
“The Solomon Islands invited the Chinese and signed a security pact.”
Yes. Now, the Solomon’s will be on the losing side of a future war and they will get the consequences of their actions.
So, all of the Warsaw Pact countries invited NATO. Glad to see you’re on board with that. At the conclusion of this war, we should airlift Patriots into Ukrain, an armored division, set up Harpoons to the South and extend NATO invitation to Ukraine. Afterall, they have invited NATO and desire membership.