Ambassador of Samoa to China: BRI cooperation with China is fruitful. Tim Tufuga comments.
Samoan Chinese closer relations continues to flourish including the Chinese Belt and Road initiative with the construction of the Samoan Police Academy, as well as, other initiatives within the Agricultural sectors moving forward. Belt and Road Initiative The Sino-Samoa relationship continues to strengthen every year more particularly since Samoa has no military branch of Government which means that Samoa has no military alliances with any major military Groups within the Western Military powers. Unlike Tonga, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea who have all signed military pact alliances with the United States and Australia, Samoa, as a non military Pacific Island State has no military ties with any Nation. Therefore, Samoa is considered as a non aligned Pacific Island Nation open to China and even to Russian geostrategic and political relations without any military obligations and loyalties to any Western Nations, particularly to AUKUS and or the Five Eyes member Nations....