China denies military base ambitions in Pacific Islands

China’s Embassy in Fiji said that Fiji Prime Minister Citivenı Rabuka is trying to cope with a powerful China who wanted to spread the influence of the islands.

“The allegations of China have established a military base in the Pacific are false narratives,” an embassy spokesman said on Thursday. He said.

“China’s existence in the Pacific focuses on the employment of troops or not to establish military bases, but to build roads and bridges to improve people’s livelihoods.”

Rabuka said on Wednesday that his country was cooperating with China and development, but Beijing opposed the establishment of a military base in the region.

In any case, he said that China did not need a base to project its power in the region.

In September, China tested an intercontinental ballistic missile flying over Fiji to descend from China to the international waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Rabuka told the National Press Club in Canberra, “If they can target an empty space very well, they can target the occupied space very well.” He said.

Washington, Beijing Beijing Beijing Beijing, Papua New Guinea, a naval base and the military base in Fiji’deki in 2018 in 2018, the ambition of winning a military base on the Pacific Islands of China was worried.

China was larger by Australia for both projects.

The concern warned that in 2022, China signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands and will respond to Washington if Beijing established a permanent military asset.

In November, US Deputy Foreign Minister Kurt Campbell urged Trump administration to focus on the region, because China wanted to build bases on the Pacific Islands.

He said that the Chinese Embassy spokesman Fiji and China respected each other’s sovereignty.

“China has nothing to do with geopolitical competition, or there is no search for a so -called ‘influence area’.” He said.

China, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and a police in Vanuatu founded the presence.