S8 Ep1133: XCleo Paskal exposes Chinese cognitive warfare in the Solomon Islands, where identical pro-Beijing propaganda appeared in separate newspapers. She details China's aggressive pressure on Palau, utilizing economic threats, triad activity, and cyberattacks t
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
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Cleo Paskal exposes Chinese cognitive warfare in the Solomon Islands, where identical pro-Beijing propaganda appeared in separate newspapers. She details China's aggressive pressure on Palau, utilizing economic threats, triad activity, and cyberattacks to force the nation to de-recognize Taiwan before an upcoming regional forum in late August. (6)
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Bachelor, Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, and we go immediately to concerns of the Solomon Islands. |
| 0:52.8 | Read this as Guadalcanal and its friends. |
| 0:55.8 | Recent history has been too much turmoil to summarize other than to say that the |
| 1:01.9 | Solomons have been in play. Now we turn to Cleo Pascal, our colleague at the Foundation for |
| 1:07.9 | the Defense of Democracies, to understand the present state of the Solomon Islands |
| 1:12.4 | choosing between the People's Republic of China and everybody else, including the United States and Taiwan. |
| 1:19.9 | That's the choice here for a series of islands north of Australia. |
| 1:25.7 | The headline in the Sunday Guardian, that's India, a smoking gun |
| 1:30.3 | in the Solomon's proves information shaping by China. Cleo, a very good day to you. |
| 1:35.7 | Information shaping. What is that? And why is it play in the Solomon Islands? I've missed a few |
| 1:42.2 | chapters here. Good evening to you, Cleo. |
| 1:45.0 | Good evening. So that's a headline that is constrained by space. It should actually be |
| 1:52.3 | cognitive warfare domain, which is a little bit too long and even more difficult to explain. |
| 1:59.2 | But this is something that the Chinese Communist Party and she himself has spoken about |
| 2:05.8 | being one of the most important elements of domain. |
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