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#Fiji: #PRC disinvited. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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#Fiji: #PRC disinvited. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/australia-america-china-pacific-national-security-defense-aukus-japan-indonesia-taiwan-f8e6dbe3?mod=hp_opin_pos_5#cxrecs_s

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The United Kingdom, France, the contest is about the first, second, and third island chain.

1:03.0

And the prospect of a conflict between the US and China in the future, some say as early as 2025, it's a guess.

1:12.0

However, the islands are now the battlefields, and they're done with law fair, with pressure, with money.

1:19.0

We go now to Fiji, where Gregory has new information about Fiji and results there.

1:26.0

I read a headline, however, to help me understand this is the South China Morning Post, which is a publication that's associated with the People's Republic of China, not with the United States, indicating that the Chinese authorities present have been disinvited, because the Fijians believe that they're not...

1:48.0

that their beliefs are not consistent with Fiji. Gregory, this is a very vague headline. Can you fill in the blinds, please?

1:55.0

Well, yes. Fiji has always been one of the key strategic pivots in the Southwest Pacific.

2:03.0

It's the lead nation, if you like, in the Pacific Islands forum.

2:09.0

It's the lead country in the whole, a millenician group of peoples in that region, and of course it is strategically situated along the sea lanes from Australia to the United States and so on.

2:22.0

It's Fiji, the Fiji island group, which is about 320 islands, is about 1,000 miles north of New Zealand.

2:29.0

Since 2014, we've seen the government under the control of the former armed forces commander and Navy commander Frank Van Marama, the former naval Commodore, who's been Prime Minister since 2014.

2:45.0

He was allowing himself to be more and more sympathetic to Beijing and accommodating penetration, if you like, to a degree, by the PRC economically and so on in Fiji.

3:01.0

This would have been a major turning point, had they succeeded in that, as far as Australia, New Zealand, and the US are concerned.

3:11.0

It's interesting for the whole millenician community, including such places as the Solomon Islands.

3:17.0

On December 14, there was a new schedule election in which Frank Van Marama was defeated.

3:27.0

His party got the most seats in the House of Representatives, but only about 45% of the vote, and 45% of the seats.

3:36.0

They were able to be ousted by a coalition led by another former Prime Minister and another former head of the armed forces, the chap called City of any Rambuka.

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