This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Tale of Oceania in the 20th century, I welcome Cleo Pascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, who is our guide on this adventure, which is only

halfway through. It puts one or two men who belong to the people of the Solomon Islands

against the empire of the Chinese Communist Party. So far, it's a tie. Cleo, a very good evening

to you.

We begin in the year 2019.

The capital of the Solomon Island group is Haneera on Guadalcanal Island Island.

Guadal, of course, famous for the combat that started the crawlback in the Pacific,

for the Marines, for the United States, and for the people

of Oceania. And now we're in the 21st century. In Japan is an ally of the United States and

transparent and a democracy. And the villain, the threat, is the Chinese Communist Party. What happened in 2019 that changed forever, the people of the Solomon Islands,

a strength and vision of the future.

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

At the beginning of 2019, the Solomon Islands recognized Taiwan.

And if you recognize Taiwan, that means you don't have a Chinese embassy. And those Chinese embassies function like forward operating locations

for influence operations and spy bases. It gives you a level of protection against the political

warfare that the Chinese operate in. But they had been targeting,

the Chinese Communist Party had been targeting specific people within the Solomon Islands

political establishment. One of them is thought to be the then-governor, actually, of Guadalcanal.

And they move up through the political

systems. And there was an election and a new prime minister got in. And he unilaterally

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