Two Chinese ships will arrive in Tonga today. Officials acknowledge the situation has highlighted the strategic tussle for influence in the region. China is calling it a "goodwill" mission. Of course they would.

Forget Ukraine. Think about us and the region.

The whole belt and roads scheme has now been revealed.
It was never to push the signed up countries into default on the loans,
but a more subtle arrangement of forbearance on missed payments and
ultimately of forgivenment on loans leaving them as vassal states of
the modernised Central Kingdom.
So far in Africa it has been a roaring success. Watch the Pacific.

China should certainly be a concern.

A Labor Senator has named a suspect for the foiled interference, under privilege. A Chinese property developer was named.

Russia seems to be adopting China's China Sea practises in the Baltic.
Sweden has had to send troops to Gotland Island due to Russian Naval
ships intruding into Swedish waters. Russian submarines have intruded
into Swedish territorial waters.
Military type drones have been seen flying over various parts of Sweden.
They have been seen over Stockholm. A Russian "tourist" was arrested.

There is now a public interest in both Sweden & Finland in joining NATO.

There are more than 500 demonstrations every day in China. Just imagine what would happen if there was mass unemployment and mass hunger in the country. The CCP can imagine it. We have to start imagining it to realise just how serious the China threat is to us