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US Coast Guard cutter denied entry into Solomon Islands port, sparking concerns of China's growing influence A United States Coast Guard cutter conducting patrols on an international mission in the Pacific Ocean was denied entry to a port in the Solomon Islands raising concerns about China's growing influence in the area.
The cutter Oliver Henry was taking part in Operation Island Chief monitoring fishing activities in the Pacific, which ended Friday, when it sought to make a scheduled stop at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, to refuel and re-provision, the Coast Guard office in Honolulu said.
There was no response from the Solomon Islands’ government for diplomatic clearance for the vessel to stop there, however, so the Oliver Henry diverted to Papua New Guinea, the Coast Guard said.
Additionally, it was reported that a British vessel was also denied entry but the British Royal Navy has not commented directly on those reports.
During Operation Island Chief, the U.S., Australia, Britain and New Zealand provided support through aerial and surface surveillance for Pacific island nations participating in the operation, including the Solomon Islands.
China has been assertively trying to expand its presence and influence in the Pacific, and Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare alarmed some neighbors, the U.S. and others after he signed a new security pact with China.
The pact has raised fears of a Chinese naval base being established within 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) of Australia’s northeast coast. A Chinese military presence in the Solomon Islands would put it not only on the doorstep of Australia and New Zealand but also in close proximity to Guam, the U.S. territory that hosts major military bases.
"China is gaining ground in its efforts to gain dominance in the Pacific," Former United States Department of Veterans Affairs Assistant Secretary James Hutton tweeted in response to the news.
"China is now running the Solomon Islands," Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, posted on Twitter.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Because the U.S. military is the only part of the federal budget that President Biden and the Democrat-Bolsheviks are slashing funding for. They made a modest increase in military spending, that in proportion to inflation is actually a large cut in military spending.
Even as Biden covid-mandates have caused at least 60,000 of the brightest and best in our military to leave. EVEN AFTER the covid vaccines have proven to be ineffective, and have a much higher ratio of permanent injury and death than any other vaccine, the Biden administration keeps up the vaccine mandates in our military. To purge the military of Republican/conservatives, and those of Christian faith.
And because the Biden family has directly profited from selling out to the Chinese, gaining a fortune of at least 31 million dollars. And possibly far more. Hunter Biden's windfal from a $1.5 billion investment for the Bank of China has not been made public yet. Hunter Biden has openly boasted in his e-mails (on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer) about his high-level dealings with
"the spy chief of China".
Either by Benedict Arnold-like outright treason, or by capitulation to Chinese blackmail of the Biden family, the Chinese communist government has complete control over the Biden administration, and through him, the entire U.S. military (i.e., "elite capture").
Gee, why would China be so aggressive in expanding its borders throughout the Pacific?
Wow, such a mystery.
