Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Batcher, conversation with Cleo Pascal, my colleague at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, about the playbook for the Chinese Communist Party to take over an island, a sovereign island, or a sovereign island group such as the Salimans, now taken

over completely by the PRC, north of Australia.

First you bribe, then you entice, then you make it very clear there's no downside to taking

our money.

And you do what you're told in the legislature or the Prime Minister's office in this case,

Sogavari the Prime Minister stepped aside brought in a

protégé Manelli who now does the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party and its

representatives in the Solomon's Party and its representatives in the

Salomon's group and taking over a province of the Salomon's much as the same way.

Identify those who are resistant to your importunities and then bribe everybody around him saying there's nothing wrong

with taking our money there's nothing illegal here which is in fact the truth then

promise big projects,

builds your Huawei towers, builds your port facilities,

you own it.

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