Another small circle of anti-China?
The United States, Britain, Japan, New Zealand and Australia set up an informal organization, claiming to strengthen ties with Pacific island countries
[Global Web Report] According to Reuters, the White House said on the 24th local time that the United States, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom formed an informal group to promote economic and diplomatic relations with Pacific island countries.
The report mentioned that as China promotes exchanges and cooperation with Pacific island countries, the Biden administration has vowed to devote more resources to the Indo-Pacific region.
The group, called the Blue Pacific Partnership (PBP), seeks to support Pacific regionalism and strengthen economic ties between Pacific island nations and the rest of the world, the report said.
"We will be united in our shared determination to support a region that benefits the people of the Pacific," the White House stated. "We will also be united in how to achieve this vision -- based on the principles of Pacific regionalism, sovereignty, transparency, accountability, and more, Most importantly, under the leadership and direction of the Pacific island nations."
According to the report, Campbell, the coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs at the US National Security Council, said on the 23rd that as Washington intensifies its confrontation with China in this strategically important region in the Pacific, he expects more senior US officials to visit Pacific island countries.
China and Solomon Islands formally signed a framework agreement on security cooperation between China and Solomon Islands this year.
Before the signing of the agreement, the United States, Australia and other countries tried to obstruct it.
After China announced that the agreement was officially signed, the United States, Australia, Japan and other countries still put pressure on the Solomon Islands through dispatching officials and other means, expressing so-called "concerns" about the agreement.
China and Solomon Islands have also expressed dissatisfaction and opposition to this practice on many occasions.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular press conference on May 18 that some people in the United States are addicted to coercion and coercing their allies to create an anti-China clique all day long.
Wang Wenbin said that we urge the U.S. side to live up to its words and deeds, implement the statement of the U.S. leader not to seek a new Cold War, and do more things that are conducive to China-U.S. mutual trust and cooperation and world peace and development.