Nov. 12, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| Well, and last year when you went to the Solomon Islands, you actually met with former premier of Malaita Province, Daniel Suidani. | |
| Daniel Sudani. | |
| Yeah. | |
| May he rest in peace. | |
| Yes. | |
| That's right. | |
| He just passed away. | |
| And that story, by the way, is kind of interesting. | |
| He passed away for lack of receiving dialysis. | |
| And he was refused dialysis in Haniara, which is on the island of Guadalcanal. | |
| It's the capital of the country. | |
| And they only have a single functioning dialysis machine there. | |
| And the one doctor, who's a nephrologist that runs the thing, is actually a citizen of the People's Republic of China. | |
| And so he's in their pocket, too. | |
| And here we have the prime opposition leader, who's a very brave, courageous guy, dying of kidney failure because he can't get dialysis. | |
| Let's talk about Premier Sui Dani a little bit more. | |
| I've actually had him on this show a couple of years ago, and we've talked about him a number of times. | |
| What does it mean that the Premier of a province of a tiny island nation which has this mass subversion, mass influence operation, mass bribery campaign affected on the island? | |
| What does it take for a person like that to be the hero who will stand up to them? | |
| Well, courage comes in handy. | |
| That's the first thing you need just to face down the opposition and the Chinese, frankly. | |
| But he was. | |
| He was a very, very selfless, courageous leader. | |
| I actually got to know him because it was brought to my attention that he needed a visa to come to the United States for medical treatment. | |
| And he was denied that by our State Department. | |
| And I was so flabbergasted that I called up the Secretary of State and said, what the heck? | |
| This guy is a hero. | |
| And, you know, he's our hero. | |
| He's the last bulwark against the Chinese taking over the Solomon Islands. | |
| We should be open arms, welcoming him, not denying him a visa. | |
| And so they actually changed their ruling, gave him a visa. | |
| So he dropped by the office to say thank you. | |
| Well, I mean, I met his family, by the way. | |
| I went back to the Solomon Islands when I made that trip, and I met his wife and daughters. | |
| They're lovely people. | |
| You know, I just want to remind everyone watching, right, these islands are of great strategic interest to the United States. | |
| They are very strategic. | |
| Whenever you think about, you know, whether you're thinking about Ukraine and Russia, you're thinking about the Indo-Pacific and China, you look at the map and you go, my God, there are a lot of island nations out there between here and there. | |
| Who controls those things? | |
| And it turns out China has established a very, very strong control of a whole lot of the Indo-Pacific nations. | |
| So, you know, you think, well, they're tiny islands that just sail between them. | |
| But, you know, their exclusive economic zones interlock. | |
| So that you never leave. | |
| You're always in somebody's exclusive economic zone, which means they have some control over what's going on in their area if they control their own government. |
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