Turkey will receive the Russian S400 Air Defense Missile Batteries, at the cost of the 100 JSF35s from the US, on July, 2019. By Tim Tufuga

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Turkey will receive the Russian S400 Air Defense Missile Batteries, at the cost of the 100
JSF35s from the US, on July, 2019.

More significantly, is the higher probability that Turkey will most likely be refused NATO
membership soon after which will result in Russia becoming a most likely future ally of Turkey.

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Meanwhile, tensions between Turkey and Greece over this likely anti-NATO and anti-European Union stance has suddenly become hostile with the Greeks have returned to their traditional hostile stance towards their traditional Ottoman enemy centuries in the making.

Times are a changing and alliances are shifting in the world. Brexit and Turkey are moving the goalposts in European and global politics.

Whilst the EU has been dominated by the Germans as the strongest economy in the EU, and the Turkish government are resorting to a century ago attitudes, it seems that even after a century of dynamic and dramatic events, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

With Brexit, the Anglo-American British Raj and colonial conceit has countered the German dominated EU. Meanwhile, the Turkish attitude against the EU and NATO, has also displayed a very conceited attitude of the Turkish government which reminds the world of the Ottoman Empire's conceit and imperial arrogance against the Western world over a century ago. A memory very close to the ANZACs with the landing on Gallipoli and the loss against the Ottomans, yes, the Turks, back then. A loss to the Turks that is constantly reminded to ANZACs every 25th of April of each year, as ANZAC day. A day celebrated by Turkey as the day when the ANZACs were soundly beaten back to their ships and away from Gallipoli and Turkish lands.

Today, there are constant reminders of a century of political and historical memories in global politics. (Timoteo Tufuga)
Tim Tufuga

Source:
Gursel, Kadrei, Al Monitor,
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/04/turkey-russia-ankara-anti-west-attitude-pl
ays-into-hands.html 18th April, 2019.

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Asau Port, a Chinese Pearl in the Pacific. By Tim Brian Tufuga

According to The Australian newspaper by journalist Rory Calliman
“China is negotiating to fund the redevelopment of a coral-choked port in Samoa, in a move seen to have major economic and strat­egic implications for Australia and the US in the South Pacific.
Samoa’s Agriculture Minister confirmed that discussions were under way with China to bankroll the redevelopment and expansion of the Asau Port, which alread­y boasts a concrete wharf and is sited next to an airstrip on Savai’i, the nation’s largest island.”, (The Australian, November 26th, 2018)
(Asau Harbour, Tim Tufuga May, 2018)

What may seem innocuous to the goodwill development of fragile developing Island economies of the South Pacific, may in a geo-political and even a military strategic standpoint for Sino-hegemonic ascendency, may be considered as connecting the PEARL STRINGS of the Pacific Region into the Chinese strategic network.
As similar to the String of Pearls strategic objective of the Chinese regional expansion throughout the Indian Ocean region, the Pacific Region has been specifically targeted by the Chinese as well. (2)
Asau Harbour, in particular, has been considered as an fertile strategic target for acquiring a strategic Pearl for the Sino-Pacific regional design.
Asau Harbour, in the North Western region of Savai’i Island, is part of the Vaisigano District, and is the capital of the Vaisigano District of Pule in Samoa. Strategically, Asau harbour, and its Port, is an ideal approach to Samoa from the Western Pacific.

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Utuloa, is part of the Eastern most entrance to the Harbour, There is a Wharf located here which had once served to transport lumber destined for papermills and construction offshore.
Personally, Utuloa, is my ancient Matrilineal homeland. My mother was born here, my Grandma, my uncles and aunts, were also born here, and, those descendants from my matrilineal extended family, still live here.
The “Strings of Pearls” has manifested the revised ‘domino theory’ ideological fear of the Cold War ‘Red Peril’, which was once coined during the period of international relations, otherwise known as the McCarthy era from the late 1940s, which in 2019, is now known as the ‘Strings of Pearls’, which is a network of Sino-Hegemonic geo-political infrastructural lines of communications, military bases and networks of commercial activity, strategically emplaced as part of the nascent rise of a Sino-Neo-colonial expansion throughout South East Asia, Indian and now the Pacific Region.
What has become a personal intrusion in my cultural heritage is the audacity of certain Political machinery of government which has allowed the inexplicable commercial purpose for the infrastructural re-development of the Utuloa Wharf, and the Asau Harbour, other than for a very dubious goodwill gesture. However, with a bigger picture glance at a Djibouti-like strategic motive, the development may have another military ulterior motive for the inexplicable commercial reason for the Chinese to want to invest on the Asau project.
Herein, lies the rub for why Asau Wharf, and the Asau Harbour has been earmarked for a very generous Chinese Pork Barrelling like gestures for the hearts and minds of my family and the people of Asau, so as to allow for the development of a seemingly inoperable wharf, and Asau harbour.
The ulterior motives seems to point towards the Strings of Pearls in the Pacific Region and the Djibouti Chinese base in the South Pacific as a plausible objective as well.
Timoteo Tufuga




Sources:
(1) The Australian, Calliman, R, https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/foreign-affairs/chinas-plan-to-develop-samoan-port-a-regional-security-concern/news-story/ede01bfe7ac23d97e2872a3ff6a07368?fbclid=IwAR2Zcro60idFjVwW_zqK-ZISQzx654hKYQb6SU5FVFLn6frmWdobLghLnxM November 26, 2018.
(2) Wikipedia, Chinese Military Base, Djibouti, ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_People's_Liberation_Army_Support_Base_in_Djibouti
(3) Wikipedia, String of Pearls, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_of_Pearls_(Indian_Ocean)
(4) Wikipedia, McCarthyism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
(5) Wikipedia, Chinese Peoples Liberation Army support Base in Djibouti, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_People%27s_Liberation_Army_Support_Base_in_Djibouti