Beijing Dangles ‘Gargantuan Amounts Of Cash’ Over South Pacific Islands As Treaties Set To Expire

In his book: The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy To Replace American Order, former Brookings fellow Rush Doshi argues that China has “three sequential ‘strategies of displacement’ they will pursue at the military, political and economic levels” to lessen and eventually replace America’s clout in the world. He postulates that China could be successful because they play “the long game”

One of Beijing’s hegemonic strategies in the coming decades is to exert as much influence over the island nations of the Pacific Ocean as they possibly can. Their unsubtle plan is to follow in the United States’ footsteps in order to counter the imposing American military presence on Guam and Hawaii by gaining a foothold in the region of western Oceania known as Micronesia.