Solomon’s Main CCP Opponent Can’t Get the Ear of Canberra, He Says

‘We were trying to get an appointment but we haven’t got one,’ Daniel Suidani said.

Daniel Suidani, the former Premier of Malaita, Solomon Islands, speaks on China's interference in his country and calls for united efforts to push back against the regime in an interview with the Epoch Times, on May 29, 2023. The Epoch Times

When pro-Beijing candidate Jeremiah Manele won the contest to become the new prime minister of the Solomon Islands in May this year, observers predicted closer relations between the two—but few could have foreseen how far and how fast.

Within two months, Manele made his first official visit to Beijing, heralded by the Chinese Ambassador to the small Pacific nation, Cai Weiming, as a “model” of development.