Posted on 12/23/2021 7:38:22 PM PST by Nextrush
Chinese police officers and equipment will soon be sent to Solomon Islands to help defuse months of civil unrest, a move that is already causing anxiety for Australian officials.
On Thursday Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's besieged government announced it would accept Beijing's offer of assistance to strengthen its anti-riot policing capabilities.
In a statement the government said it was "mindful of the urgent need to strengthen Royal Solomon Islands Police Force capability and capacity to respond to future unrest".
"The government has agreed to accept the People's Republic of China's offer of riot equipment and six Police Liaison Officers to equip and train Royal Solomon Islands Police force with the skill sets complimenting ongoing training received under existing bilateral assistance," it said.
Last month 73 Australian Federal Police and 43 Australian Defence Force personnel were dispatched to the troubled Pacific nation following days of rioting against Mr. Sogavare's government.
A decsion by Solomon Islands to switch diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to China in 2019 is one of the factors blamed for unhapiness with the Pacific nation's government.
Mr. Sogavare has blamed "external factors" for the recent unrest in his country and the Premier of Malatia Province, Daniel Sudani, has been outspoken in his opposition to the national government's decision to back Beijing rather than Taipei....
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
A small contingent but a beginning.
The current government opposed by protests in the streets replaced Taiwan recognition with People's Republic of China recognition.
Are asset protection trusts at risk? Me might see just how powerful some groups actually are! Their influence in China is debatable... So is their loyalty to those trusts. How much is actually sheltered there? China will obviously flex; Biden is a weak and feeble old man. Why wouldn’t they?
I’ll bet some money exchanged hands for their “change of heart” about Taiwan.
I read somewhere that the magic number was 700 million dollars.
China’s easy coup. The UN Helped overthrow nations by destabilizing them (our CIA probaly lead that effort) and then offering UN troops to ‘calm unrest.’ Once there, the UN troops only fight to keep the coup installed puppet in place. Patriotic resistance is described as ‘insurgents/rioters’.
CCP is acquiring the Solomon Islands for their prize. Some in Australia and New Zeeland are already working hand in glove with the CCP so it’s hard to say who is worried about this.
Accepting an expeditionary force.
Won’t end well.
ChiCom cops = Solomons salties food ...
Let not a one return
“riot equipment’
Tanks
Oh my.
Once upon a time, Australia, New Zealand, and USA would have barred Chinese troops from the Solomon Islands
That was then. This is now. Different World. Different time.
They need Chicom troops to quell the rioting that is occurring because the new government withdrew their support for Taiwan, then gave it to China.
Did I get the gist of the article?
The rioting in the islands driven by the ditching of Taiwan for Beijing that’s right.
Yes. Not an improvement as it will lewd to communist china control over 900 islands (each with large economic zones for resources) and very much closer military access to Australia, new Zealand, and Indonesia
Now Chinas banking on their door. Australia already has their people on the Islands......China paved the way with military equipment so “6” of their police officers can scope out what they want to find out on those Islands.
“Chinese police” are nothing like we are familiar with - they aren’t nice guys. They are the Peoples Armed Police (PAP, has military and security missions, an agency of the PLA), responsible for keeping civil order at any cost, drug smuggling operations into other countries like Mexico, working undercover as part of the PLA, subverting locals and many other things. Wherever they go, bad things happen.
See: https://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/china/pap.htm
Has the UK commented...?
(crickets)
BTTT.
Don’t the Solomon Islands have large bauxite deposits?
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