How Australia Is Winning Pacific Ocean | Australia Is The New Pacific Power | The Blueprint

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For decades, Australia treated the South Pacific as a quiet, loyal buffer zone. That all changed in April 2022, when a leaked security pact between China and the Solomon Islands sent shockwaves through Canberra. With Beijing suddenly knocking on Australia’s front door, the Australian government launched the most ambitious, aggressive geopolitical counter-strategy in its modern history. In this episode of The Blueprint, we break down how Australia is fighting back to secure its neighborhood, not just with warships, but through telecom buyouts, undersea internet cables, game-changing climate-migration treaties, and the high-stakes military buildup of AUKUS. The Solomon Islands Shockwave: How a single leaked draft agreement upended Australia’s national defense doctrine overnight. Economic Statecraft & The Checkbook War: How Australia used Telstra and the AIFFP to outbid Chinese state-backed bids on telecom networks (Digicel Pacific) and undersea internet cables. Diplomacy via Clima

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