China buys the Solomon Island government to freeze out Taiwan. Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

Photo:  Warrior with wicker shield and parrying club, Solomon Islands. Original albumen photograph, c 1880's 

China buys the Solomon Island government to freeze out Taiwan.  Cleo Paskal @CleoPaskal, and @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

Cleo Paskal, associate Fellow at Chatham House; non-resident Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India;  adjunct professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Non-resident senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies,  @CleoPaskal