Well, the Solomon Islands election results may not have gone the way any external links might have wished them to go – a coalition government is never an ideal solution – although a standpoint emerges which confirms that “taking sides among regional powers is not the decisive factor”, but the mood appears still to be favourable on some level as leaning toward a primarily Asian rather than Western direction.
This should not be a surprise to the west if they in any way held the faculty to reflect on their own colonialist activities of the past, still engaged in today. A one-way transferal of wealth and wealth-making capacity (‘theft’, by any other name) from the islands, and in fact from wherever they operate, to themselves. Take for example the case given in the Global Times text below. Where Australia has stolen (helping themselves and no-one else) the Solomon’s ability to prosper by coaxing its most trained industrial workers to move off-shore through facilitated residency (in Australia) for skilled workers. A shameful practice of the west generally, while claiming to be benefactors of the nations they so abuse.
Of course, but not before time, the wider world is beginning to recognise this now, and there is a visible and broad-scale move away from western influence and toward what began as a Eurasian bloc and is rapidly expanding to include the global majority, among which China is an enabling leader (along with Russia) within a retained national sovereignty grouping of nations (external to and never to be invited among the western clique) treating each other as equal partners. You may call these nations ‘sovereigntist’ but that requires a revised and expanded definition of the word, as recently misused in North America, back to its original meaning.
‘Solomon Islands election results signal move away from geopolitical strife, offering new paths for societal development: analysts’ – Global Times – May 8, 2024
This is why, as I said, we are in a stage of Western Supremacy Dissolvement…
“We would like to explore and learn from the lessons that China has gone through, especially in terms of poverty eradication. Having a population of 400 million middle income earners out of 1.4 billion people speaks of the growing spread of wealth within China. So that experience is also one that developing countries like the Solomon Islands would like to learn from.” – Jeremiah Manele, newly elected Prime Minister of Solomon Islands (quoted from linked article).
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