PREVIEW: #SOLOMON ISLANDS: #PRC: Conversation with colleague Cleo Paskal of FDD regarding the PRC's soft power success in electing J. Manele as the Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands. The discussion will focus on the implications of this development fo
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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1940 Malaita of the Solomons
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor. |
| 0:31.0 | Conversation with my colleague Cleopascal, the Foundation for the Defense of |
| 0:35.8 | Democracy, who watches Oceania, the vast specific, the contest between the People's Republic of China and the United States, Australia, |
| 0:45.6 | Aukas, all the allies. China is winning in the Solomon Islands. |
| 0:51.1 | It is now successfully replaced its long-time friend |
| 0:55.7 | Prime Minister sogavari partial to China with a choice by sogavari a man named |
| 1:02.3 | Jeremiah Manelli, the new Prime Minister. This means that China will |
| 1:06.8 | control the levers of government. In the Solomon Islands, aka that |
| 1:11.8 | includes Guadalcanal. It also is significant for |
| 1:15.1 | Australia and here Cleo explains how significant and at the same time how Australia |
| 1:21.2 | did not manage this well so far. |
| 1:24.0 | Cleopascal, Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's, Solomon Islands, |
| 1:29.0 | to China. |
| 1:31.0 | More of this later. This is, and actually it's interesting you put it like that. |
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