Saturday, April 10, 2021

Solomon Islands

22-9-24 Xina's and Australia’s power plays in the Pacific - Caspian > .
24-4-12 Superpowers watching the Solomon Islands election | ABC Aus > .
23-12-3 Xina and West in battle for control of $olomon Islands | 60 Min > .
23-11-24 Xina’s ploy to buy heart of Pacific | ABC Aus > .
23-10-23 Xina's Threats Pushing Philippines Closer to US - WSJ > .
23-10-20 Xina's PLAN Expansion vs USN's Hegemony - gtbt > . skip > .
23-8-1 Australian Security: X-T conflict could erupt ‘on accident’ | Treverton > .
23-7-29 Ream, Hambantota, Tonga Naval Bases; Australia - Focus > .
23-7-28 PLAN's Indo-Pacific Bases - Ream, Hambantota, Tonga, Solomons - Focus > .
23-4-16 Xina wants Solomon Islands - Suidani vs Corrupt Sogavare - Unc > .
23-4-7 Solomon: Anti-X Malaita ex-Premier Daniel Suidani banned > .
23-1-11 Xinese Warships Spotted in South Pacific - Focus > .
22-11-27 Dragon's Claw: Xina's Next 10 Years - Kamome > . skip > .
22-11-11 Fortress Xina - Xi's Plans for World Domination - laowhy86 > .
22-10-24 Xi's [Probably Unachievable] Goals - Digging > . 
22-10-10 Coming Conflict with Xina | Michael Beckley > . full > .
22-8-26 How Xina wages an unseen war for strategic influence | FT > .
22-7-21 Xina losing international trust, 10 Pacific nations rebuff agreement - CR > .
22-4-28 Almost 60% of Australians want Australia to be tougher on Xina > .
22-4-27 Solomon Islands: Can Xina afford a base? Taiwan safer > .
22-4-21 Xina Trying to Build a Military Base Near Australia - Unscripted > .
22-4-19 Xi Jinping Could Lose Big in the PacificChina Unscripted > .
22-4-6 Impact of Xina-Solomon Islands Pact on Australia’s security | ABC News > .
Global Threat

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia. It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the northwest, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north. It has a total area of 28,896 square kilometres (11,157 sq mi), and a population of 734,887 according to the official estimates for mid 2023. Its capital, Honiara, is located on the largest island, Guadalcanal. The country takes its name from the wider area of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which is a collection of Melanesian islands that also includes the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (currently a part of Papua New Guinea), but excludes the Santa Cruz Islands.

In Solomon Islands, Xina built most of the venues which have allowed the capital Honiara to host the 2023 Pacific Games. But Xina and Xi Jingping are not alone. Taiwan, Australia, and the United States are all trying desperately to win Honiara’s heart. This tussle has caused panic in Taipei and Canberra, anger in Beijing and Washington, and actual violence in the Solomons.

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