Epoch Times - The Legacy of Daniel Suidani, Who Dared to Stand Up to the CCP Taking Over the Solomon Islands
Aired: 2025-11-12
Duration: 03:49


=== Daniel Suidani's Legacy (03:38) ===

[00:00:00]  Well, and last year when you went to the Solomon Islands, you actually met with former premier of Malaita Province, Daniel Suidani.
[00:00:09]  Daniel Sudani.
[00:00:10]  Yeah.
[00:00:10]  May he rest in peace.
[00:00:12]  Yes.
[00:00:12]  That's right.
[00:00:13]  He just passed away.
[00:00:14]  And that story, by the way, is kind of interesting.
[00:00:17]  He passed away for lack of receiving dialysis.
[00:00:21]  And he was refused dialysis in Haniara, which is on the island of Guadalcanal.
[00:00:29]  It's the capital of the country.
[00:00:31]  And they only have a single functioning dialysis machine there.
[00:00:36]  And the one doctor, who's a nephrologist that runs the thing, is actually a citizen of the People's Republic of China.
[00:00:44]  And so he's in their pocket, too.
[00:00:47]  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.
[00:01:00]  Let's talk about Premier Sui Dani a little bit more.
[00:01:04]  I've actually had him on this show a couple of years ago, and we've talked about him a number of times.
[00:01:10]  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?
[00:01:27]  What does it take for a person like that to be the hero who will stand up to them?
[00:01:32]  Well, courage comes in handy.
[00:01:34]  That's the first thing you need just to face down the opposition and the Chinese, frankly.
[00:01:41]  But he was.
[00:01:42]  He was a very, very selfless, courageous leader.
[00:01:47]  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.
[00:01:58]  And he was denied that by our State Department.
[00:02:02]  And I was so flabbergasted that I called up the Secretary of State and said, what the heck?
[00:02:10]  This guy is a hero.
[00:02:12]  And, you know, he's our hero.
[00:02:16]  He's the last bulwark against the Chinese taking over the Solomon Islands.
[00:02:21]  We should be open arms, welcoming him, not denying him a visa.
[00:02:28]  And so they actually changed their ruling, gave him a visa.
[00:02:34]  So he dropped by the office to say thank you.
[00:02:38]  Well, I mean, I met his family, by the way.
[00:02:42]  I went back to the Solomon Islands when I made that trip, and I met his wife and daughters.
[00:02:48]  They're lovely people.
[00:02:50]  You know, I just want to remind everyone watching, right, these islands are of great strategic interest to the United States.
[00:02:58]  They are very strategic.
[00:03:01]  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.
[00:03:16]  Who controls those things?
[00:03:18]  And it turns out China has established a very, very strong control of a whole lot of the Indo-Pacific nations.

=== Always In Someone's Zone (00:25) ===

[00:03:28]  So, you know, you think, well, they're tiny islands that just sail between them.
[00:03:32]  But, you know, their exclusive economic zones interlock.
[00:03:36]  So that you never leave.
[00:03:38]  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.