Targeting China.
Foreign media reported today: "Australia has signed a new defense alliance agreement with Fiji, aimed at strengthening bilateral relations to counter China's growing influence in the South Pacific region."
This defense alliance between Australia and Fiji ostensibly claims to "enhance regional security cooperation," but in reality, it is Australia wielding America's "Indo-Pacific Strategy" baton, planting another strategic foothold in the South Pacific to target China—its intentions are impossible to conceal.
Australia has long regarded South Pacific island nations as its own exclusive "backyard," off-limits to outsiders. The signing of the China-Solomon Islands security agreement four years ago shattered Australia’s decades-long monopoly in the region, directly touching on its hegemonic sensitivities. Since then, Australia has been racing to expand its influence across the region, swiftly signing exclusive defense agreements with Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, and now bringing Fiji into the fold—gradually constructing an encircling network of islands aimed at containing China, attempting to lock down China’s normal cooperative space in the region.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1869941785579532/
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