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CVS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Cleopascal, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's,

takes us to the Solomon Island chain in the Pacific.

Above Australia, this is Guaro Canal and other islands.

There have been elections and those elections turn all of the Sullivan Islands and indeed this whole region toward the People's Republic of China, bad actors.

Cleo, we begin with Daniel Sudani, the man I first met when you started in illustrating this story.

He needed medical attention.

He went to Taipei, received it.

A healthy man, I've spoken with him as he traveled to America

and appealed for help as his Island Malata, part of one of the provinces

of the Solomon Island Group was under assault by agents for the People's

Republic of China.

Since then, a lot of politics and now results.

Let us begin with Sudani.

He was uniformly overwhelmingly re-elected to be a member of the legislator at Maleta Province.

He was easily seen as a candidate to be premier of Malita province.

However, he withdrew.

Why?

Good evening to you, Cleo.

Good evening.

So the way that the system works in Solomon Islands

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