Solomon’s Main CCP Opponent Can’t Get the Ear of Canberra, He Says

When pro-Beijing candidate Jeremiah Manele won the contest to become the new prime minister of the Solomon Islands in May this year, observers predicted closer relations between the two—but few could have foreseen how far and how fast.
Within two months, Manele made his first official visit to Beijing, heralded by the Chinese Ambassador to the small Pacific nation, Cai Weiming, as a “model” of development.
The prime minister did not refute Cai characterising his country as “adhering to the one-China principle and firmly supporting China’s just stance on issues related to Xinjiang [the Uyghur Autonomous Region], Hong Kong, [Tibet], and human rights”—a ringing endorsement of some of the most controversial aspects of Bejing’s behaviour….



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