Nov. 7, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Anybody who's ever studied military history, especially in the Pacific, realizes immediately that the distances, number one, are huge. | |
| And number two is you can't get to China or, by the way, World War II Japan without going through all those islands. | |
| So that was Douglas McCarthy's famous island hopping campaign. | |
| He didn't do that because he just thought it would be warm-up exercise on the islands. | |
| That's what he needed to do to get to Japan. | |
| And China knows that there's actually a first and second island chain, easily identifiable on any world map. | |
| And the Solomon Islands is a very, very key location. | |
| And it's right in the middle of access to China. | |
| And they want to own that. | |
| They want to control that. | |
| And by the way, controlling means controlling all their communications. | |
| They already do all the cell phones. | |
| So they got that. | |
| The communications, fiber optic cables, they already own all those. | |
| And the government. | |
| Now, the people of the Solomon Islands, generally speaking, don't really like the Chinese government or the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| They don't want to have anything to do with it. | |
| In fact, just about five years ago, they rioted and burned down Chinatown. | |
| And nonetheless, the Chinese have kept going in there and bribing, corrupting, as they do their Belt and Road initiatives, as I call it, bribery and corruption initiative. | |
| And they have won over a majority of the parliament. | |
| So they have the votes now. | |
| And that means they control who gets elected prime minister by the parliament. | |
| That's the way they do that. |
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