USA vs China: Who Will Win the War for the South Pacific?

Unless the US and Phillipines plan to reactivate Monroe Doctrine and seize the territories militarily, than it is quite clear that China will win at the current rate.

You didn’t mention that Russia has teamed up with China. That could change the outcome of all.

Even though Australia spends vastly more in aid to Pacific Islands, China will get the upper hand by bribing the local politicians. Look up the Solomon Islands 'National Development Fund', which Prime Minister Sogavare used to buy the support of MPs in a recent no-confidence motion. All paid for buy the Chinese.

The guy who made the thumbnail deserves a pay raise!😂

What double standards and arrogance! Not allowing China to communicate with Pacific nations, but allowing the first island chain to block China. Pay attention! Horrible-horned Chinese will eat angelic Anglo-Saxons and their dogs LOL.
My country never taught me to hate others, but today I feel a lot of your hate. Many of you do not know that the so-called "Wolf warrior diplomacy" is not a state policy but an outlet of popular sentiment.

China gonna win.

How about China's presence in Antartica? Gee, wonder what they could be up to over there 🤔

Clearly America. USA USA USA!!

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I honestly think the US won't fare well. We will have to see

The upcoming war will be a war in the South China Sea between the Navies. Although the China Navy has more ships than the US Navy, Chinas Navy has never been battle tested so it comes down to how battle ready the US Navy actually is. I fear there will be many sailors lost to Davey Jones' Locker.

Who will win the war in the Pacific. The US of course ! We've been here before, the Japanese tried it and look what happened to them....... China wouldn't last 5 minutes up against the US and they know it.

As for strategic importance, the US Island Hopping strategy in WWII showed just how significant a port of resupply and to land/refuel planes can be. The logistical significance extends beyond military uses though as supply chains for any industry operating across the enormity of the Pacific will find the same value in these Islands as any military. When looking to further any national geopolitical agenda, it's difficult to see many things of greater importance than industry and the force projection of your military. Rhetoric and ideology might be the substance of speeches and agreements, but the strategy is always centered more on the material advantages of industry and military power. Anybody who wishes to project power across that great sea must inevitably turn to the islands if they are to have any hope of success. The enormity of Chinese trade across the Pacific makes its interest in the region absolutely essential. But the same is true of the USA and so there will be much deal-making throughout the land... er sea. Ultimately, it may not matter which side holds the upper hand. Both sides are increasingly dependent upon each other economically. China needs Americans to keep buying their stuff, and American companies need Chinese labor to provide that stuff to Americans at the prices they demand. China needs the dollar to prop up its own currency, and the US needs China (and Japan) to keep buying US debt so the USA can keep running its eternal deficit. China needs western investors and western investors need China to make their investments go farther than they could at home. For now that relationship is lopsided with China needing the USA more than the USA needs China. Relationships can and do change, but right now any dramatic shifts in the US-China relationship would cause too much pain for either side to countenance it- assuming rational actors all round.
Conclusion- the status quo will likely shift around in the south Pacific, but it is in neither side's interests at the moment for those shifts to be any more substantial than the tides in which a degree of dominance over the region may oscillate but never settle permanently in either side's favor. Stalemate is my prediction for the foreseeable future, which admittedly is not a long time as the last three highly unpredictable years have proven.

China and USA should try sharing the islands is war truly needed?

Chinese industrial and real economic powers and are overwhelming. So unlike those of the US built mostly on selling software, copyrights and fiat money.

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On a cultural level for a lot of the pacific, Australia will win through our connection to common sport.

On the other hand, i think that the S.Pacific countries should decide for themselves. This video just proves how the West think about other countries. It is always about influence and Colonialism.

China will win.

Western way to approach is "arrogancy" and "ordering" non western country leader.

Nobody would love to being ordered how to handle his own domestic issue.

China foreign politic : giving out bribes

Funny to see white people try to convince me asian that they precisely know about Chinese’s dream which even i with the same hair color don’t but some how they knew. Also almost everywhere my fellow asian goes the US and AUS will follow these day. 😂

China goes in build roads and infrastructure while u.s goes in with bombs and imf loans😅

所以中国不会像美国那样全球霸权 只会团结大部分国家发展形成多极化世界 那时美国就孤立于欧亚大陆之外了

There is no war in the Pacific. Only happening in war mongers' heads. Its about trade. And since the anglos have nothing with which to trade they rob and make war and smear others who just want to trade. Sounds awefully like when the anglos trafficked drugs into China just because they didn't want to pay in silver for all they tea and porcelain. So they pushed drugs and when there was push back, they started war. Same playbook. Except now the PLAN will crush any anglo 5 eyes aggression if they dare try to make trouble for the peace loving nations of China and the pacific nations.

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Huae? ... Sad how you did that deliberately, this used to be a channel of knowledge and unbiased information. Everything is Chinaphobia now and becoming a propaganda channel

Err... the war is not about winning the South Pacific

USA : we give you weapon , to attack China
China : we give you road , rel , port ,and airport to grow your economy to be independent from United States

As a Pacific Islander from Tuvalu, Australia and NZ have always been the ones that have provided aid over the many decades of our independence. Taiwan also entered the picture for well over a couple of decades now doing nothing but providing aid where it is necessary. As of writing this message in 2023, all Tuvaluans are against this new Chinese hegemony power in the pacific. But like every other nation in the world, there is always one politicians who will get paid under the table and eventually influence public opinion. I do hope that we are small enough to not let such a politician shape such important foreign policies.

USA and Australia: let's further exploit these primitive darkies, like we did for last hundred years.

China: hey, pssst, wanna get exploited by us? We hide our racist supremacist thinking better and we are not THAT greedy either.

Pacific nations: ok, I guess.

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A great deal of that space is administered by France. Seems like an odd detail to overlook.

At this point, the South Pacific could and should benefit from just playing both sides and reaping the rewards.

U.S will with God’s help.

Long Live USA

China should ban the export of rare earth metals to the USA and its Western Allies for national security and defence reasons. This will reduce their ability to manufacture high tech missiles and other military equipment that threaten the security and sovereign rights of China, SEA nations and the world at large.

There are quite a few errors in this video. For one, Australia is NOT the police force in Micronesia. In fact, they are not influencial at all in Micronesia. We dont even think about them. The US has been the region's police.
And Palau and most of Micronesia do not trust China.

Visualpolitik, can you made video explaining about civil war that is happening at Sudan right now

😂 if there is a war the islands will align with New Zealand and Australia because a lot of the people from the islands settle in these 2 countries and everyone has a family member that lives in NZ and Australia so yeah we’re intertwined

Growing up in the South Pacific, regional powers are keeping the islands poor via aid. Our politicians won’t adopt important long term policy changes because aid money in voters pockets today is more effective when you living week to week. It’s a hard cycle to break from.

If it’s an actual war, idk how the US would win without relying on choking China’s trade, and thus ruining their economy.

Neither would win an invasion.

China is also limited by Enemies near it, and US aligned regions

USA and Europe have never appreciated the Nations of the Pacific or the Poverty stricken countries also known as the Third World Nations, which they exploited for centuries!
So here comes China with goodies for the rulers and the population of these countries.
As much as I hate the despots and dictators it is a major fiasco for the Western Alliances !
I wish this didn’t happen!
But reality is here.

The difference is that in the past you ruled over them by fear and intimidation and today China is making them their own by providing money.

the US has a base there and then there's the base's in Korea and Japan, game, set and match

China 🇨🇳 to pacific: You want Goodies
Pacific; you paying 🐼
China: No 🇺🇸 paying
Pacific; How?why? But how??

China 🇨🇳: By saying i paying😭

King 👑 china 🇨🇳

Das ist eine gute Idee und gut bedacht von China 🇨🇳
Das kann China sich leisten.
Weiter einkaufen, viel Erfolg 🍀

you talk too fast mate... slow down a bit and we can understand you better

If ww3 happens Australia's cann't aviod it. They willl have to pick a side. Sucks but it's true.

FU.. XI!