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Oceania, the vast Indo-Pacific and the sovereign states therein are in a contest between the United States and its

allies and the People's Republic of China. The success that the PRC has had these last

years is in the Solomon Islands. This is a group to the north of

Australia including Guadalcanal. Right now it turns on lawfare and the bullying of the People's Republic of China trading with local

politicians who have had their head turned by money and promises of more money by the People's Republic of China.

I welcome Cleopascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

writing most recently in India at the Sunday Guardian, about the arrest and persecution

of two men from one of the islands in the Solomon Group, Malata.

This is Sudani the Premier at one time of Malata and his

colleague Tali flu, Philu, both of whom were arrested recently by the authorities in Malata, charged

with unlawful assembly in 2021.

This was during a period of upset when the Chinese had first moved in to influence the capital in another part of the Solomon group.

It's all very complicated, which is why I'm glad Clio's here because the everything

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