Small note to Matt and the ABC team: the "ai" in Malaita is locally pronounced more like the long "a" in "mate", rather than the long "i" in "mite. If you listen to how both Suidani and Sogavare say Malaita (at about 12:22 and 12:35) it's closer to (though not exactly) the long a sound. The island is known as Mala or Mara, depending on what part you're from, and Mala'ita is derived from this. I never heard the "long i" form of the name when I was there in the 1980s and 90s, except when Americans tried to copy the name from Australian sources, but I have noted the "long i" form used by the ABC for the last few years (but note the ABC pronunciation used to be the "long a" form in the past - listed at about 9:32).

@robertmusgrave9457

5 ай бұрын

Note Sogavare's use is at 13:35, not 12:35 - my error.

@allo-other

5 ай бұрын

But 13:34

This is a very good show. Thank you ABC.

0:38: 😊 Chinese President Xi Jinping has become more friendly and is engaging with other countries. 1:12: The competition for influence in the Solomon Islands has caused panic in Taipei. 4:05: 🏝 The island of Mal in the Solomon Islands has a unique culture and history separate from the rest of the country. 4:37: The people of Mal have historically identified as separate cultural groups with different languages. 5:01: Malian culture has been negatively stereotyped due to resistance against colonization and conversion to Christianity. 7:04: 🌊 The Battle of Guad Canal and the relinquishment of British control over the Solomon Islands. 8:02: Prince Richard gave an awkward speech in Pigeon English relinquishing British control over the islands. 10:32: 🇨🇳 The video discusses China's growing influence in the Solomon Islands and its potential motives for investment. 11:30: Some raised concerns that China's investment in the Solomon Islands may be a pretext for setting up naval and air bases. 13:39: 🌍 The Solomon Islands' relationship with China has caused tension with Australia and the US. 14:42: The US intervened by providing financial support to the anti-China premier, causing further tensions. Recapped using Tammy AI

@IntertropicalConvergence-gf3bm

5 ай бұрын

solomon should do whats best for themselves .

Solomon Island has been there since independence and no one has ever showed interest in helping them. China shows up and you make a lot of noise. Let Solomon Island be a sovreign Nation and you mind your own business!

@user-qs2ku8eb9c

16 күн бұрын

Exactly. US left us in 94. And just now they show interest. They called us their backyard. Now it’s time we stand up

I always listen to the podcast first, then come here to watch the video, because both are awesome. 🙂✅😎👍🏆

5:04 couldn't find the music source reference

Very good and intelligent briefing. My issue is with the strength of my anxiety medication.

@UPTHEWAHSDAY1

5 ай бұрын

Nice!

@0401412740

5 ай бұрын

They have unlimited budget. More than private entities

@colleen2671

5 ай бұрын

Western narrative!

Excellent posting.

matt bevin excellent as always, ABC should give this guy a full budget news show asap

Could never understand the animosity between the central and provincial governments in Solomon until this video…

It seems to be impossible to convince Australians how the Chinese control of the Solomon islands would be equivalent to holding a knife to Australia's throat. Humans only tend to learn things the hard way, when it becomes far too late.

@BRUCE_the_MOOSE_

19 күн бұрын

His Evilness Emperor Xi wants to reshape the image of the Pacific Islands. Sun Sand And concentration camps.

@paulfri1569

12 күн бұрын

Great point 🤠

Great episode as always.

Thanks ABC in-depth team

So what's the problem? No one helped them so they asked the Chinese. Then Australia and USA is scrambling around to show that they care about the Pacific nations.

@user-qs2ku8eb9c

16 күн бұрын

Exactly. Even US left us and close their embassy

If you want the Geopolitical PIC OF ASIA. JUST READ PAGE 96 OF THE GRAND CHESSBOARD BY BRZEZINSKI

So, what is the point?

Loving the story time. Long live the ABC.

Using cash?! If Australia is good at infrastructure,they would pick Australia as well.

@theadventuresofzoomandbettie

5 ай бұрын

australia progressively cut back financial support to our island neighbours over and over during the last 10 years. Of course they were going to be enticed by money from elsewhere. It's why the first thing Labord did when they got in power was to spend a lot of time with Wong and Albo meeting the leadership of many small island nations. Duttons "the water will be lapping at their doors" joke won't be forgotten by these countries anytime soon.

Thanks Matt.

Trouble in Paradise

Your explanation is top notch 😊

That Solomon Islands opposition leader with Brain cancer likely was attacked with a Electromagnetic radiation weapon or something like that from Red China.. Poor man as he couldn't defend himself.

I wish if you're listening had its own KZread channel.

Watch the new Midway movie as it kinda explains it.. Logistics is what wars are all about.. The Imperial Japanese in WW2 was trying hard to do this in Solomon islands by cutting Australia off from the USA 🏝️

Sogovare is the King of the Pacific.He is making all the right decisions.West potrarying China has bad is BS

without artificially added background noise (music) it wouls be more pleasant to watch this video.

Love your work!

Great video. Stop following the regular narative and go longer

Why do some people pronounce Taiwan as Tai won.

Just come back from S.I. Notably the Malaitan people are open and friendly. My concern is a strategic base to close to our shores and the downing of it's unique flora.

He said, Xi said! 😂😂😂 I will definitely be using that one!

I feel like that stadium will fall apart and be abandoned in a few years and turn into rubbish, but maybe it wont.

2:28 , in which world CT scan cost $122000, they are lying In my city it costs around $40

Australia and its patron, the US, throw a hissy fit at even the thought (not even an established fact) of China having a naval base 2000 miles away. Meanwhile, it's OK to have multiple bases within a a few hundred miles of China. That's normal.

@doltecbyal

5 ай бұрын

Well said. The hypocrisies of the US-led West is one of the reasons why some of the global south is turning away from them.

@Leo_Pard_A4

5 ай бұрын

Would you rather live under the regime of the CCP or the US?

@k.k.c8670

5 ай бұрын

@@Leo_Pard_A4 China any day. Would you like to like in China or under the Dem/Rep?

@colleen2671

5 ай бұрын

Peter Dutton laughed at the water on the doorsteps of these Island homes!

@BRUCE_the_MOOSE_

19 күн бұрын

His Evilness Emperor Xi wants to reshape the image of the Pacific Islands. Sun Sand And concentration camps.

A CT scan costs $100,000?

@pjacobsen1000

5 ай бұрын

The cost includes the ambulance aircraft round trip. Those are always very expensive, like taking a private jet, but including the cost of nurses and medical equipment.

China is creeping in any one aware of what happened to our port Darwin? Back to china’s hand

@jesussonofgod6284

5 ай бұрын

GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️

@FukYaLyf

5 ай бұрын

@@jesussonofgod6284Yet being a Christian in China is illegal 🤣

@jesussonofgod6284

5 ай бұрын

@@FukYaLyf GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️

@lordwind9745

5 ай бұрын

@@FukYaLyfI’m confused what you mean, there are estimated 100 million Christians in China, it’s not one of the major religions but Catholicism and Protestantism is explicitly allowed as offical religions.

@FukYaLyf

5 ай бұрын

@@lordwind9745 A quick google search of ‘persecuted christians in china’ will answer your question. CCP don’t give a crap about religious freedom or human rights and anyone who says otherwise has never been to China

😮

Sitting in Australia producing this is quite ironic, I must say...

To control the Indo Pacific Ocean's you need Australia on your side.. American control the Indo Pacific because it has Australia 🌏

Why is there an Israeli flag @3:12 ?

@Leo_Pard_A4

5 ай бұрын

Why not?

@jasonlawler3547

5 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@Leo_Pard_A4light weight answer, sport. In fact you replied with a question. It’s because some people in Pacific island nations, primarily Melanesians believe they belong to one of the lost tribes of Israel.

@qanaqa33174

18 күн бұрын

That's because Malaitans including their premier believe they are one of the lost tribes of Jacob😂

The answer: China focus on peace, trades and investments. Aukus is addicted to wars, sanction, and regime changes in the past 30 years.

@BRUCE_the_MOOSE_

19 күн бұрын

His Evilness Emperor Xi wants to reshape the image of the Pacific Islands. Sun Sand And concentration camps.

Why does Australia even care? Solomon Islands is a sovereign nation.

@Leo_Pard_A4

5 ай бұрын

You're not the brightest crayon in the box now are you?

@qanaqa33174

18 күн бұрын

The West is scared of the rise of China😂

@lyalljunior975

16 күн бұрын

​@@qanaqa33174 and China scared of rise of Australia 😂

@paulfri1569

12 күн бұрын

Because the Red Chinese are using them as pawns to be a knife 🗡️ at Australia's throat.. That's why..

Why are they so desperate and concerned about a sovereign decision by an independant state?

I agree with Sogavare, the previous premier Sudini was a political opportunist and a cynical one at that, he did hoodwink his constituency , his combative political approach has done nothing but setback Malaitain development, created political divisions and animosity amongst different ethnic groups which has had tragic consequences, which is also why he got voted out of the premiership by his own cabinet. It’s going to take many years to weed out these types of people which is the legacy of RAMSI mission the billions of Australian tax dollars wasted

The presenter talk about the Chinese mainland's investment as though it is a bad thing that they didn't invest. Let's be practical, if you don't recognise me why would i give my money to you ? I'm not obliged to give you my money and you are not entitled to it you know.

January 1942 Japanese also captured Rabaul - Battle of Rabaul where the British lost.

So why are the countries picking China over Australia or other western countries?

@paulfri1569

12 күн бұрын

Dirty money mate 🤠 💰

@MalinRAPPP

7 күн бұрын

The west want absoulte control over small island states. My message is stop poking you noses in others peoples lives

😮😮😮

Should Australia be in charge of other countries?

@marymarlow3646

5 ай бұрын

It’s not. Solomon Islands is a sovereign country. Our trade routes could be under threat but we’re not Russians, we’re not invading, we’re trying to solve it diplomatically. They did ask for our help in keeping the peace, if you were paying attention, and our soldiers and police were there for a long time. They made no attempt to take charge of the country.

@marymarlow3646

5 ай бұрын

After longstanding tensions between competing ethnic groups intensified in 1998, Solomon Islands fell into armed chaos and anarchy. At the request of the Solomon Islands Government, Australia led 2 multinational peacekeeping missions in 2000 and 2003 to end the violence and restore law and order. A mix of military, police and civilian personnel deployed from Australia, New Zealand and 13 other countries from the Pacific region. Australian troops withdrew in 2013 after 10 years of peacekeeping service, while police and civilian personnel remained until 2017.

@BRUCE_the_MOOSE_

19 күн бұрын

If it is an alternative to the evils of the CCP Chinese Criminal Party, well then the answer is yes.

@user-qs2ku8eb9c

16 күн бұрын

@@marymarlow3646Australia waited until our country collapse before stepping in. So what is wrong if China military help us? We need their help. If Australia wants to help us then Let China help us. I guess Aussie is disguising their help for personal gain

Based

Suidani is just one person who is sick. What about the rest of the population? So he is more special? Most citizens need same treatment.

Too good in investigation but not good in helping the developing countries in the Pacific. Please don't confuse the mindset of the people. Solomon Islands Prime Minister leadership towards his people is the best of all island nations within the Pacific 🇸🇧🇨🇳❤️🥰🙏🏻

Strong episode. The playbook utilized by those in the Chinese government is at this point well known, along with its almost heinous corrupting influence. I surely hope that liberty persists over there, though the head of state isn't I suspect an ally to that end, while consciously remaining apt to believe that he is.

@andrewbarron7690

5 ай бұрын

He has those Yanukovych vibes. It was a great watch.

@Western_Decline

5 ай бұрын

Liberty: when Whites control Solomon Islands 😂

@awen777

5 ай бұрын

And then there is the long known playbook of the US. #1 Sell our manufacturing to the Chinese. #2 Borrow heavily from the Chinese. #3 Pocket the money and leave your citizens without safe efficient public transit. #4 Create 800 military based in 80 countries compared to China's close to zero , further ensuring that your own people in the US are left destitute. Facts are nasty when allowed to see the light of day. I traveled in China from the beginning of their infrastructure projects up until recently when they came to completion. My eyes could not unsee that! We call China communist as a media slight. They are actually socialists.

it's been going on for decades. China has placed infrastructure in many small Pacific countries, who pays the debt?

Gosh. Leant a lot from that

🇨🇳❤

Wow...just...wow. what a load of BS?

Any help from China comes at enormous cost. China does not assist any other nation with ultruistic intent. The infrastructure it builds in Africa and through the Pacific incurs long lasting debts, which enables China to affect trade and military decisions over the impoverished nations. China's ultimate aim is to dominate world trade and finance.

@danielkim2238

5 ай бұрын

Don't be naive enough to believe China will stop short of going beyond dominating world trad and finance. The only reason China is not forcing its value and ideology through to the world is simply because they can't do it for now.

@k.k.c8670

5 ай бұрын

And the aim of western powers led by the US is what?

@jstone247

5 ай бұрын

@@k.k.c8670 the lesser of two evils.

@k.k.c8670

5 ай бұрын

@@jstone247 @@jstone247 except China does not initiate regime change, color revolution and occasionally b/omb you when nothing else works

@Beau001

5 ай бұрын

​@@jstone247depends if you're already indebted to them or not, and who your government consists of. Good luck being a free sovereign nation bordering a U.S owned state.

Smells like a propaganda channel. How much money does the alphabet agencies pay for this kind of work? Economies going to shit so we need to know how much pay you can get doing this.

@MegaFarah78

5 ай бұрын

true

@biggpicture2930

13 күн бұрын

Of course it is

GOD WILL ALWAYS BLESS CHINA AND ALWAYS BE WITH CHINA...!!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 ✝️🇨🇳GOD BLESS CHINA🇨🇳✝️

@Leo_Pard_A4

5 ай бұрын

Are you really this dense?

@colleen2671

5 ай бұрын

There are thousands of Indigenous-Chinese families throughout the top parts of Australia! 🖤💛❤️👣🇨🇳 Indigenous Australians traded with Asian countries for thousands of years!🙏🏼🕊️

@marymarlow3646

5 ай бұрын

Hope he stays there

@paulfri1569

12 күн бұрын

​​@@colleen2671Hmmm so what.. That like me saying my ancestors 2000s years ago were trading with the Germans with Scotland. Be like me telling you this 1930s.. You kinda get what I'm saying right 😅

All countries have to sop dealing and buying from China. They have only one interest and that is to dictate over every country they can. Building stadiums in Honiara is 100% useless to the country and its citizens. That is not the type of infostructure they need to help progress and uplift the economy. They need help to promote tourism and trade to help all of the citizens. Not sell out the country. Just have to look at how Vanuatu has turned out. Chinese moved into shops and could buy items cheaper than the citizens for the identical item and under cut them until they were forced out of their shops. They move in like a virus and kill off the competition until they own and run everything, and the citizens can hardly make a living.

@fvalemus5377

5 ай бұрын

Did you cry?

@kevinwalton2664

5 ай бұрын

As opposed to US intentions. They're all for peace and development. You really need to give your head a shake !