Is the ABC enjoying the new Solomons?

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Does the woke community at the ABC get it now? Bloomie:

The Solomon Islands government threatened to ban “disrespectful and demeaning” journalists from entering in response to an Australian documentary that alleged widespread Beijing influence in the Pacific country.

A spokesperson for Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare accused the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) of promoting “racism and racial stereotyping” in a lengthy statement published Wednesday, and warned the government would “ensure that racial practices are eliminated from the Solomon Islands.”

“Such organizations or journalist who possess such qualities will not be allowed to enter Solomon Islands and other Pacific Islands nations,” Sogavare’s spokesperson said in the statement.

This press release might as well have been written by Beijing. It comes straight out of the 14 conditions to end democracy:

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The Solomons is being turned into a Chinese-sponsored dictatorship day-by-day. In due course, it will slowly gather unto itself Chinese military assets to defend captured elite.

This has multiple warnings for Australia:

  • Albo’s China reset is a fig leaf for Chinese expansion.
  • Pacific Islands will continue to fall to this untoward influence.
  • Albo’s Pacific reset needs teeth.
  • Eventually, the same process will arrive in Australia with increased Chinese immigration, economic dependence, and normative groveling.

Everybody now has a choice. Fight for freedom, starting with the press.

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Or, start groveling and get your slice of the CCP pie.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.