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Modi’s modus operandi – can Australia predict India?

4 April 2022

12:20 PM

4 April 2022

12:20 PM

If things go wrong in the Pacific, which is possible given Beijing’s plan to station military personnel in the Solomon Islands, Australia will require an ironclad alliance of friends to defend its territorial waters.

Pacific Islands’ geography presents a nightmare for invading forces – which is why Xi Jinping has done everything possible to buy his ocean empire with a system of debt-trap down payments.

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