Solomon Islands - Australia is so scared! Really?

 HUGE THREAT! U.S. Warns China Against Building Military Bases in the Solomon Islands

This is just another of the hysterical headlines of American and Australian propaganda machine against the China Solomon Security Cooperation Pact. And the Australians are acting and saying they are scared of this Pact, that China is putting a hundred policemen in the Solomon Islands to maintain order and security but would threaten the security of Australia. The next thing they might do is to make all scared Australians to seek psychiatric treatment before they go insane. Australia, claiming to be the most powerful military state in the region, is afraid of 100 Chinese policemen, they are having sleepless night, nightmares, and wetting their pants. Poor things! The pretension is hardly comical? Who are they conning?

And the Americans have signed a military pact with Papua New Guinea to station American soldiers and nuclear weapons in PNG. Are the Australians scared? Or are the Indonesians scared? The lying and mischievous white Australians may have something to be really scared about. Their forceful and unlawful occupation of Australia, stolen from the hapless and defenceless aborigines, will get more notice by the world. 

The whole world is asking, on what legal basis are the white Europeans occupying the island continent of Australia? When are they going to return the island to its rightful owners? When and how are they going to pay for their crimes and massacres of the aborigines, abusing their human rights and the right to their homeland?

And their bullying and oppression of the Pacific Islanders, controlling them and preventing them from economic development and living a better life, not allowing the Islanders their freedom to choose their friends and to develop their economies of their own choice. The Australians and the Americans are still trying very hard to control and subvert these islands as their colonies.

The leaders of these islanders have been left on their own, to be poor islanders depending on the charity of the Australians when the Australians chose to be generous as and when they like it. Now China is coming in to show the islanders that they can work to improve their economic well being and attain a better standard of living, without having to live on the charity of others. And the Australians would not allow it, the Americans would not allow it as a richer island populations would be more difficult to control and suppress. They just want to put the islanders in their pockets like they have done for centuries and forget about them, with time stood still, no progress, no development, for the safety of Australians.

Oh, they recognise China and not Taiwan but want the islanders to recognise Taiwan and not China.

Below are some comments in Youtube on what is happening in the Pacific Islands.

@bluefood9720 2 months ago Why is the West condemning countries who switched from TW to CCP when they themselves made the switch decades ago? Maybe condemning is too strong a word. But you know what I mean don't you?

@b.nichols3255 2 months ago

It's OK for America and NATO to build bases wherever they like, but not China. Hypocrisy and insecurity abounds.

@michaelleong100 2 months ago (edited)

The whole world is starting to get fed up of USA's hegemony and bullying tactics as if the whole world belongs to them. 

@dayylogg9716 2 months ago

China build economic infrastructures, America build military bases.

@sepam82 2 months ago

Even if China use the port for their naval service the USA has no right to interfere since Solomon islands is a sovereign state 

@Alex-Rainmaker 2 months ago

US alone has more than 800 military bases worldwide. And they are warning China not to do it? 

@larrysherk 2 months ago

If the United States would like to make suggestions about where China can have military bases, it would be a good start if the United States closed its 870 (more or less) bases and brought out troops and equipment home. The concept of "empire" has been dead for a very long time.

@osiris2u 2 months ago

If the US proceeds to build the 4 military bases in the Philippines and continues to supply weapons to Taiwan, China should add a naval base to the port in Solomon Island. 

@victorteo4783 2 months ago (edited)

US warning China in building military base in the Solomon Island?  What a joke! How many military bases US have? 800+ for what? Think you controlled the world? 

India, the devil inside

The Currency Conundrum: India's Unexpected Move! 16 min clip on how India is sabotaging BRICS currency. India had sold itself to the Americans when Modi met Biden in Washington and is out to undermine BRICS and SCO. Both organisations must be prepared to kick out India for their own good. The moment may come in the August meeting in South Africa. Not to expel India will turn BRICS into a lame duck and kill dedollarisation. It will become meaningless for countries to want to join BRICS or SCO.

 It is already seen by many that India is being used more and more by the USA to be another pawn cultivated to contain China. China knows it, the world knows it, but only the Indians have yet to know it or pretending not to know it. India may be good in playing both sides, but eventually will regret just like those countries that had been used by the USA, and than discarded or destroyed when their usefulness is over.

Whatever alliances or treaties that the USA signs with any country is all for the interest of the USA, nothing more nothing less. Enemies just have to strengthen themselves militarily for whatever the USA is planning, while friends may yet end in more fatal ways, by letting their guards down and being blindly lead to the abatoir for slaughter later on.

Yes, the USA is not going to condemn the Modi Government's treatment of the Muslims in India the same way they accused China's treatment of the Uyghurs. Neither will it now condemn the ethnic/religious conflict now erupting in Manipur, between majority Meitei Hindus and the largely Christian Kukis, a group which had been suppressed and mistreated by the Hindu Government. In return the Modi Government had to tow the USA line, just like the Philippines and PNG, and the USA Government is now demanding a base in India for logistics to support their confrontation with China.

BRICS has to take a stand now with India in the process of hosting USA naval and logistical facilities. Most people commenting on this issue are of the opinion that India cannot be allowed to remain inside BRICS and a way must be found to remove the Trojan Horse that is already doing the damage.

Anonymous

Biden offers India a big role in PGII

 If India joins BRI, it will be a disaster in the making for the grouping. It is a blessing in disguise that India opted out itself, and should never be allowed in. It does not smell good for the BRI, knowing that India is playing for keeps, wanting the cake and eat it as well.

India had already been offered membership of the USA backed 'Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment' plan (PGII) with a US$600 billion budget (of which US$200 billion is to be contributed by the USA). Many have cast aspersion at the meagre US$600 billion plan for 'global' infrastructure, that is being compared to the US$4 trillion already invested in the BRI projects. Is the PGII a Lego project? In that case US$600 billion would be an out of this world investment.

Fact is, India has calculated what could US$600 billion do to global infrastructure, compared to US$4 trillion? It is just a drop in the ocean. India is still calculating. Moreover this idea was floated by the G7 member states and the main benficiaries will ultimately be the Anglo Saxon White countries. Bear in mind that the USA could not even fund its own failing infrastructure renewal at home, so why spend US$200 billion that has no benefit to itself. But, never mind, barely conscious Junkie Joe will leave office soon, so what is a promise after all. They say promises are always meant to be broken.

India could again be used to play the Trojan Horse by being coaxed to join the PGII first, then applying for membership of the BRI. India is not even in the G7, so why is India instrumental for the PGII? To counter China of course! What happens with India in the BRICS and the QUAD already sent a clear message to the other founding members of BRICS. Let not this happen again to the BRI, knowing the PGII's intention is to compete with the BRI.

Anonymous

Indian Rupee Avoided Like the Plague as It's Always Falling in Value

It’s time for Indians to get real about the Indian rupee’s global role. India’s botched effort to bypass the dollar to buy Russian oil shows the limits to internationalizing its currency.

A year ago, there was palpable excitement in New Delhi around buying Russian crude. The Reserve Bank of India allowed foreign banks to open special rupee accounts with local lenders to encourage trade settled in its home currency. Moscow-based Sberbank and VTB Bank were the first to come on board. The idea was that importers would credit these accounts, whose surplus could be invested in Indian government bonds.

For sellers of Russia’s flagship Urals crude in the spot market, avoiding dollar clearance meant bypassing the Western banking system and sanctions.

Yet, the plan hasn’t really worked. Russia’s banks are reluctant to accumulate balances with lenders in India in a non-convertible currency that has lost half its value against the dollar over the past 15 years. Throw into the calculation an expected annual rate of 3% to 4% currency depreciation, and earning a 7% yield on a 10-year rupee bond doesn't seem like such a big draw.

Why is the Indian rupee always falling in value? That's because India runs a chronically huge overall trade deficit every year. Hence in the foreign exchange market, there are always more Indian importers selling the rupee to buy foreign currencies than Indian exporters buying rupee against their trade receipts. As importer supply of rupee overwhelm exporter demand for rupee, the rupee naturally falls in value.

Anonymous

BRI - What if India decides to join

 India refused to join BRI using Pakistan as an excuse, not wanting the route traversing India to go through Pakistan. China's plan was to build roads and rails cutting through India from Myanmar, through Pakistan to Iran and onwards to the Middle East.

What if India turnaround and tell China it is willing to join the BRI? Who is going to build the roads and rails in India? Would China dare to build the roads and rails for high speed trains to pass through India? Given the experience of Japan's high speed train project in India, and the experience of Xiaomi and other Chinese companies in India, unless India intends to build its own road and rails, it is questionable if China would want to offer to build them. This is as good as China voluntarily offer to build high speed trains for India in India that it now sees as a treacherous place to do business.

For BRI, China is very tempted to build rails and roads in India. It was innocent enough to bid for the Indian high speed train, but with the grace of providence, ended in the hands of Japan, a dear friend of India. Now the cunning Japanese and sneaky Indians are fighting it out to get the best out of this bizarre high speed train project that would never see daylight in another 100 years. What had happened or is happening in this project is a good lesson for China. 

India's modus operandi is to hang a big carrot to lure an innocent party into India, with promises of great potential for growth. It is true that India looks like a great potential for development and to make profits from investment. The reality is a nightmare once an investor stepped into India and sank in the money. It would become a pool of quicksand, never able to pull out alive. The initial contract is only a beginning. It would become an unending contract of changes and amendments once the investors have put in enough money and pulling out of the deal would mean big losses. India would make all kinds of demands outside and above the contracts making it very unbearable and unacceptable for the investors. Japan is getting a big taste of the Indian medicine. The investor would now become the prey to be eaten alive by India. 

This is like the proverbial story of pretending to be a pig awaiting to eat the tiger. Some third world countries also think this is a good tactic to learn from India. After a major project is near completion, or the investors cannot pull out anymore, make all kinds of unreasonable demands to rip the investor apart. This kind of childish ploy can be used only once. As once used, the credibility of the party is gone forever. Xiaomi and several Chinese companies are good examples. They thought with goodwill and sincerity, they could invest in India on a win win formula. But a snake is a snake. Trusting a snake must be prepared to be bitten by the snake. They asked for it.

It may be a bit late. But after learning this bitter and painful lesson, all Chinese companies are packing up to leave India. No more business in India or with India, unless it is on COD basis. You can only cheat a person once. Caveat, there are willing suckers that would want to be cheated over and over again, but pretend that all is well, not cheated, never been cheated, and will make money in the long, long run, when everyone involved is dead and gone.

So, would China dare to build rails and roads in India for India should India come with a big smile and say it wants to join the BRI? Maybe, on COD terms, cash out front, like BYD.  Building such infrastructure without collecting money first, worse, lending money to India, is unimaginably stupid to do so. Not just to India, but to unreliable and unpredictable third world countries. The stupid would always part with their money and wealth very quickly, if they choose to be stupid not to learn from the painful lessons of others.

With the attitude and unreliable behaviour of India, India would never be invited to join the BRI again. It was sheer good luck that India chose not to be in. Nothing is lost without India's participation in BRI.