'The primary security threat to the Pacific is climate change,' not China, says PacificElders.
"The primary security threat to the Pacific is climate change," stressed former leaders of Pacific Island nations.As military tensions mount between the United States and China over the Solomon Islands' decision to pursue a security pact with Beijing, former Pacific Island nation leaders on Friday reaffirmed that rising sea levels driven by climate change—not great-power geopolitical jostling—is the region's biggest threat.
Last year's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global heating above 1.5°C would be"catastrophic" for Pacific Island nations and could lead to the loss of entire countries due to sea level rise within the century. The former leaders' statement comes amid increasingly tense relations between the United States, Australia, and other allies on one side and China on the other over the latter's recentWhile insisting that Ukraine has the sovereign right to pursue closer ties with NATO and the West, the United States has
to rule out an invasion of the Solomon Islands if its leaders allow China to establish a military base there.
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