this month to plead for Canada and the West to invest money in their homeland, the Solomon Islands, as a counterbalance to Beijing.
Mr. Suidani and his adviser, Celsus Talifilu, fear arrest if they return to the Solomon Islands, an archipelago of more than 707,000 people less than 2,000 kilometres northeast of Australia. Mr. Suidani and Mr. Talifilu met with John McKay, the Liberal MP who chairs the Commons committee on national defence, as well as members of the Conservative caucus and the Bloc Québécois.
And she says she is concerned that Mr. Sogavare is “on the verge of morphing into a Mugabe-type” figure, a reference to the African dictator who dominated Zimbabwe politics for four decades. Mr. Sogavare has reportedly said he would never allow a Chinese military base in his country and Beijing has played down the matter, saying its growing co-operation with South Pacific island countries will not threaten Australia.
Mr. McKay, the Liberal chair of the Commons defence committee, said he fears China is trying to “corrupt the existing political structure” in Pacific island countries.
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