threat australia: His signature program, the Pacific step-up, and the A 3 billion Pacific Infrastructure Bank package are designed as a pushback against the development and aid projects under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative BRI framework in the region, regarded by Canberra as not only a rival, but also a threat, according to Global Times China. Australia's perception of China's motive behind BRI projects in the Pacific region couldn't be farther from truth. This demonstrated that his style of foreign policy aims at spreading influence to neighboring island countries. The nonsensical bogey of a menacing China as a threat to Australia's security and sovereignty based upon ideological differences is so disconnected from reality that it could only be diagnosed as an obsessive paranoia. Australia's unease over the Chinese presence in the South Pacific stems from China's success in Pacific island nations with constructive and concrete measures in strategic, economic and diplomatic cooperation as well as people-to-people communication. While China advocates a shared future for mankind, some Western countries such as Australia are still fixated on the Cold War-style confrontational mind-set, resonating the Trumpian rhetoric of decoupling from China, which is absurd considering pervasive globalization.
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