has been constantly claiming to strengthen the existence of the United States in the South Pacific region since this year.
Recently, Biden hosted the first US-Pacific Island Leaders Summit in Washington. 14 leaders and representatives of the Pacific island countries were invited to Washington, and officials including the US Secretary of State, Secretary of Commerce and other officials attended.
In addition to this seemingly powerful "strike", the United States has spent a lot of money to announce the provision of 810 million US dollars of new aid to the Pacific island countries.
reported that this is the latest effort by the United States to strengthen its relations with the region amid China's growing influence.
Indeed, the United States is not sincerely concerned about the development of Pacific island countries, but the previous cooperation between China and the Institute of International Studies has made the Biden administration worried.
Some experts even said bluntly, "Decades have passed, and now you (the United States) are just starting to care about (the Pacific island countries) because of worrying about China? I really feel very insincere."
Is the United States sincere? I believe that Pacific island countries can feel it the most.
Although US Secretary of State Blinken "added ink and incense" to the summit, promoting a "deep and lasting" partnership between the United States and the Pacific island countries. But this is not the case, and there are actually many conflicts between the two sides.
First before the meeting, a document showed that Solomon Islands refused the draft joint statement, and Micronesia leaders expressed serious concern about the level of financial aid provided by the United States.
It is obvious that the Pacific island countries do not trust the United States.
In the late 1980s, the three countries of Marshall Islands , the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau signed the "Free Contact Treaty" to protect economic and security assistance with the United States, allowing the United States to assume its defense responsibilities and use its military base in its territory. The relevant treaties will expire in 2023 and 2024.
However, as the United States has been ignoring the main demands of Pacific island countries, contract renewal negotiations have stalled.
Among these demands, historical problems are quite prominent. After the end of in World War II, the United States used the South Pacific region as a nuclear test site and conducted 67 nuclear explosions in the Marshall Islands, which later had many adverse effects.
In February this year, Blinken opened a trip to Fiji . He was also the first US Secretary of State to visit Fiji since 1985. He held a video conference with the heads of 17 Pacific countries and announced that the United States would reopen the embassy in the Solomon Islands.
As early as the 1990s, when civil strife broke out in the Solomon Islands, Americans closed down and left. After many years, is it really because of the importance of the United States? The truth is that the United States just wants to interfere and even control the internal affairs of these countries under the guise of aid.
Now, through this summit, the United States wants to put the strategic shackles of curbing China on the Pacific island countries.
But this set of the United States no longer works. What the Pacific island countries want is their own strategy, rather than letting White House develop a plan for the region.
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