Australian media said the Chinese influence in the South Pacific intensified into Australia's bigges

Australia New Fastweb reported on May 14, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reporter Brissenden recently wrote that, although Australia and the United States officials in the South Pacific countries will still be distinguished courtesy, but there is no. doubt that China is now the region's most valuable guests.

Brissenden said in the article, Australia expressed conce about China's growing economic activities in the South Pacific. Prior to the aouncement of Australia's latest defense white paper, Australian Defense Minister Smith called the South Pacific defense ministers held a meeting in Tonga. Australian Defense Minister's first official visit to Tonga, Smith move to the outside world that Australia has to retu to the South Pacific.

The article said that Smith has said that the gradual withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan to be able to tu their attention back to the "backyard", or withdrawal makes attention "to" South Pacific, Australia, Australia. Clearly, in recent years, in Australia "backyard", but also the most important challenge is the rise of China.

The article pointed out that China is a lot of money into the infrastructure and construction projects in the countries of the South Pacific, while at the same time to inject these countries as well as China's influence. China's influence is gradually increased, and may make strategic environment has become confusing to say, many Pacific problem analysis experts agreed. However, at this stage, to say that China is seeking to replace Australia or the United States in the region is inaccurate.

In 2009, the Rudd Govement released entitled "the defense of Australia in the Asia-Pacific century: military power 2030 defense white paper. It is the first defense white paper released by Australia in the nine years. The White Paper respect the "China threat", claiming that "if China does not carefully explain the speed of its military modeization, size and structure, may cause conces of its neighbors". Four years later, the Gillard govement has released a new version of the defense white paper, a lot of changes in the narrative: "Australia's support for China's rise, because it not only for the Chinese people to bring social and economic interests, but also for the global benefits .