what's going on in the Solomon Islands? It rings a bell. Sure, it's a great name for any island. I seem to recall some friends going on a trip there and having a great time. But in terms of international Sakina re, I wasn't aware of anything too dodgy like the Cayman Islands, home to lots of dark money. But then China formulated a security agreement with Solomon Islands. Okay, first of all, geography someone. Islands were about 1000 miles up to the right of Australia next to happy beginning. So essentially a long way from China. The prime ministers who let me get this right saga Vera has been agreement. China, that was completely secret wasn't willing to tell anyone about it. Not even MPs. But then someone lied to copy on. Basically, Solomon Islands can call up in China for armed police and military personnel to maintain social order or provide other task agreed upon by the parties to the agreement or provide other tasks agreed upon by the parties. Now, for those of you have never before been prior to comedy. I worked as a lawyer. A vague phrase like that is something you don't want in the contract, you can hire a cleaning company and, like, basically, say other assassins because, you know, we agreed to the task after that. Now this has consequences for the security of the entire Pacific region on everything else. No, I don't know what the world is Distracted by Russian atrocities. It looks like China's made a power play for the Solomon Islands and basically considered camp. They pay enough money. Dear Keith were simply looking ahead to any potential disruptions and have been offered assistance by the Chinese government. We hope we don't have to use it, but it's comforting to know it's there. Dear Solomon Islands. The only thing worse than being in a country where there's no democracy has been in the country pretending to have a democracy with outsourcing the security concerns to a country where there is no democracy,

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