Recently, "Chinese fishing boats" have become a hot topic among netizens.
Although Xia Liyan, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, expressed his condolences to the families of the compatriots killed in the "February 14 vicious collision" incident on February 29, the authorities still have not apologized to the victims, and even continue to set up obstacles to the aftermath of the incident, which can be described as cold-blooded and shameless.
What is even more infuriating is that when the "2.14 vicious collision" incident was still burning, the beautiful country began to add fuel to the fire again, provoking China's fishing boats that were fishing normally in the Pacific Ocean.
On February 26, the U.S. Coast Guard** staged a "heat" drama, flaunting what it called "great achievements", saying that "while carrying out a patrol mission to combat illegal fishing in the exclusive economic zone of Kiribati with the Pacific island nation of Kiribati**, they boarded two Chinese fishing boats."
Many netizens believe that this is a farce made by the beautiful country in order to find a "field" after the mainland coast guard approached Kinmen to carry out regular patrols, and finally found that there was no problem with the Chinese fishing boat, so it had to be obediently released.
The expected results were not achieved, and the United States made another rake.
On February 27, the United States issued a so-called warning, saying that "this kind of cooperation (referring to China-Kyrgyzstan police cooperation) may bring new risks to Kiribati, which is close to the US state of Hawaii".
Gods may do what cattle may not. You and the United States can inspect other countries' ships in Kiribati, but China can't carry out police activities?
As a result, many netizens expressed their dissatisfaction: "China's small police cooperation scared the United States" and "The double standard face is undoubtedly displayed".
I think this is also a manifestation of the beauty of the country's eyes. Since Kiribati severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan Province in 2019 and signed a police cooperation agreement with our country, the United States has been unable to sit still.
On February 27, the United States again threatened all Pacific island nations to "refrain from receiving assistance from Chinese security forces," with the aim of forcing them to "take sides." In Blinken's words, it was the threat that "if you're not at the table, you'll be on the menu."
So, why do beautiful countries look so highly on small Pacific island countries such as Kiribati?
To put it bluntly, it's still geopolitical reasons. Strategically located between Australia and Hawaii in the United States, Kiribati is an island nation with a total of 332 atolls and 1 coral island, and its territory is spread over a vast sea, with the westernmost island and the easternmost island about 4,000 kilometers away.
Although Kiribati is an island nation of only 115,000 people with a land area of about 811 square kilometers, it is strategically located in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, where the International Date Line meets the equator.
The geographical location of Pacific island countries such as Kiribati gives them great military value. There are more than 10,000 islands, which belong to the three major archipelago regions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Although the total land area is only more than 500,000 square kilometers, the sea area is more than 30 million square kilometers.
Aren't the islands and atolls providing airfields and deep-water anchorages to support and secure high-speed, intensive modern naval and air military activities, making them ideal places to build military bases at sea and deploy military assets.
In particular, after China reached a security framework agreement with the Solomon Islands, Kiribati and other Pacific island countries have become the focus of attention of the United States, and have also become the "sweet and sweet" coveted by many countries.
In fact, in addition to Kiribati being forced to sign a "shipboard observer" agreement with the US Coast Guard, more than a dozen Pacific island countries such as Papua New Guinea are also confronting China under coercion and inducement.
In September last year, some ** disclosed a boarding agreement signed by the United States for the first time with Papua New Guinea** for "countries without full defense responsibility".
The agreement means that the U.S. Coast Guard** patrolling Papua New Guinea's waters will have the right to board foreign vessels suspected of illegal activities in the country's exclusive economic zone without the presence of PNG**.
Of course, in response to the interpretation of "foreign vessels", there is also a special emphasis on "China's distant-water fishing fleet", and it is clear that the spearhead of this "US-PNG agreement" is still directed at China.
A U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said in a statement: "Any fishing vessel fishing in PNG (EEZ) may be boarded and inspected, i.e., vessels flying any flag, including those flying the Chinese flag."
Good guys, just named the Chinese ships, isn't this obviously trying to put one for us?
In addition, the agreement between the United States and PNG has opened the door for a new U.S. military presence in the Western Pacific.
Some experts believe that the use of Lombrum Air Base could be used by the US military to strengthen military facilities in the north, which could play a key role in the event of a conflict in the Taiwan Strait.
From this point of view, the United States is making trouble in the small Pacific island countries is a new trick to contain China.
However, the conspiracy of the beautiful country may not succeed, after all, the small island countries in the Pacific have a scale in their hearts.
Dmitry Moshakov, an expert at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said bluntly that "China has convincingly shown that the Pacific Ocean is by no means an internal lake of the United States, which dominates the waters from Japan and South Korea to Australia and New Zealand."
China uses reciprocal cooperation to win the hearts and minds of the people. We all know that Kiribati has a shortage of natural resources, no groundwater resources, backward infrastructure, and inconvenient transportation to the outside world, but China is willing to help them within its capacity and share the fruits of world development.
Of course, the steady progress of China-Kiribati relations will be of great significance to the promotion of cooperation between China and Kiribati under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, especially in fisheries.
Kiribati has a huge maritime exclusive economic zone and abundant marine resources, and the cooperation between the two countries will not only improve people's living standards, but also enhance the employment of young people, and the stability of the relationship between the two countries will lead to a series of deepening cooperation results.
The most important thing is that China's help to Kiribati is tangible, and China was the first country to provide medical assistance to Kiribati under the new coronavirus epidemic.
Compared with what the beautiful countries do, it is to use these small island countries as chess pieces, in addition to forcing them to "choose sides", what other vital benefits can they bring?
The United States has become the source of the world's scourge, and wherever the United States intervenes, disasters will occur there. When the U.S. Coast Guard comes to these small Pacific island nations, can the people here still have good fruit to eat?
The United States has agreements with several Pacific island countries to conduct so-called "joint law enforcement" in the waters near the latter. But in reality, this is a kind of "bandit logic", a kind of deprivation of the sovereignty of the Pacific island countries concerned.
The far-sighted people of the small Pacific island nation are well aware of this and express their appreciation for the hegemonic behavior of the United States.
In some Pacific islands, there has been a wave of criticism and US imperialism, with opponents asking whether those defense agreements with beautiful countries will allow countries to cede their sovereignty.
Facts have proven that the United States is going to another country to enforce the law against another country under the guise of cracking down on "illegal fishing," and is implementing a long-arm jurisdictional act. The actions of the United States are the erosion of the sovereignty of small and weak countries by a superpower, and at the same time interfere with normal fishing operations.
The Pacific Ocean is by no means anyone's "back garden", but a "hundred gardens" of openness and cooperation. Despite some external interference, the people of Kiribati know who their true friends are.