China watch.

Yup. That's exactly what happened and the CCP weren't even trying to hide the plan.

To set up in China, a foreign company MUST have a Chinese partner company with a 51% stake. This means all the Intellectual Property goes with it and walks out the door with the first employees the day that you open the factory.

It has worked a treat for the CCP. We literally paid them to steal our IP and then outcompete us.

ARMED CHINESE 'SECURITY TEAM' IN HONIARA

Solomon Island's Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare with a Chinese military honour guard during a trip to the Peoples Republic of China. The Peoples Republic of China's (PRC) heavily armed 'Plain Clothes Security Team' is operational out of the Chinese Embassy in the Solomon Islands' capital Honiara. Pic RSIPF

11 MAY 2022

SOLOMON ISLANDS: The Peoples Republic of China has successfully established its first armed security presence in the Solomon Islands in the wake of the signing of the Solomon Islands/Peoples Republic of China security agreement.

A heavily armed 'plain clothes security team' is now operational out of the Peoples Republic of China Embassy in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara.

The ten man 'plain clothes security team' was specifically authorised by the Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare who leads the Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement grouping.

The Solomon Island's current permanent secretary for foreign affairs authorised the Chinese to deploy with a significant armory including two machine guns, sniper rifles as well as pistols and individual defence rifles.

The Chinese weapons were specifically authorised to protect the Chinese Embassy in the Solomon Islands, but the Solomon Islands foreign Ministry documentation does not limit the 'plain clothes security teams' mandate to Embassy property or the defence of Embassy personnel.

The Chinese 'plain clothes security team' is operating under Diplomatic Immunity carrying diplomatic passports as members of the PRC's diplomatic team in the Solomons.

The operational status of the Chinese armed team in Honiara was revealed in social media posts emanating from Honiara and represents solid evidence of the rapid expansion of Chinese security presence in Honiara beyond the deployed China Police Liaison Team which has been attempting to displace the Australian led Solomon Islands Assistance Force (SIAF) staffed by Australian Federal Police, Australian Defence Force, New Zealand Police, New Zealand Defence Force, Papua New Guinea Police and Republic of Fiji Police personnel.

Both the Chinese Embassy 'plain clothes security team' and the China Police Liaison Team were authorised to enter the Solomon Islands by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare who leads the Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement grouping in the wake of the November violent uprising against his government after it announced increased ties to the communist regime of the Peoples Republic of China.

The unrest devolved into serious rioting targeting the Chinese community in Honiara, resulting in the destruction of a large percentage of the capital's China Town, which only ended after the intervention of the Australian Federal Police led multi agency security intervention force which included an Australian Defence Force combat and combat support element under Operation Lilia.

The rapidly expanding Chinese influence in the Solomon Islands is being driven by the anti Australian Prime Minister Sogavare and his senior advisor Robson Djokovic who claim that the Solomon Islands is 'diversifying' its international security support away from the Australian and New Zealand led Pacific Islands Forum based security interventions of the past.

Sogavare is aiming to reduce the influence of Australia, New Zealand and to a lessor extent the Pacific Islands Forum which restored security and regenerated the Solomon Islands democracy after a brutal civil war that erupted in the early 2000s before being halted by the Australian Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands which concluded in 2017.

Sogavare has been accused by the Solomon Islands parliamentary opposition and press of maintaining his rule by employing bribes to key political and institutional figures paid from Chinese financed slush funds.

Sogavare is also trying to extend his rule by the delay (and possible cancellation) of next year's scheduled national elections, claiming that the elections would interfere with a regional event the Solomon Islands is hosting.

In a bizarre twist, Chinese shipments of plastic simulated weapons smuggled clandestinely into the Solomon Islands on a timber freighter rather than through official channels in Honiara were intercepted by Solomon Islands customs and border control officials.

The plastic 'training aids' were simulated Chinese 5.8x42mm QBZ-95 assault rifles and 5.8x21mm QSZ-193 pistols, which were originally denied to exist by Solomons' authorities, have now turned up at Rove Police Headquarters and were employed by the China Police Liaison Team during the recent Public Order Management course.

The operational stand up of the Chinese Embassy's armed 'plain clothes security team' coincides with the Solomon Islands government's signing of a comprehensive security agreement with the Peoples Republic of China that authorises Chinese warship operations from the nation and Chinese military and security police intervention to protect Chinese citizens and facilities.

The United States of America, Australia and New Zealand have officially expressed their concerns to the Solomon Islands government over the agreement to allow Chinese military access to Solomon Islands territory and broader issues of Chinese government influence without explicitly pointing out the claims of Chinese corruption of Solomon Islands parliamentary processes.

Sogavare's embrace of the Xi regime in Beijing however carries significant risk for the regional strong man, with a population that is very suspicious of the Chinese and resentful of Chinese control of much of the nation's economic activity and disproportionate recipients of the wealth generated in the almost 1000 island micro state.

The Solomon Islands is geographically extremely important to Australia and New Zealand, a reality demonstrated during the Second World War when the then British protectorate was seized by the Japanese Imperial Navy before being recaptured by primarily US military forces in some of the heaviest fighting of the Second World War.

Australia and New Zealand, with the support of the United States of America and regional states, are totally opposed to the establishment of any Chinese military infrastructure in the Solomon Islands.

Australia withdrew from the Solomon Islands in 2017 after completing a 15 year involvement under the RAMSI focused mission to restore peace after the Solomon Islands civil war.

A second round of Australian deployments under the current AFP led Solomon Island Assistance Force are scheduled to stay in the Solomon Islands until 2023 under an agreement negotiated earlier this year.

Australia already finances the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force which has limited weapons at its disposal including 9x19mm Glock handguns and 5.56x45mm Daniels Defense M-4 carbines for employment by the RSIPF's Police Response Team (PRT) and Close Personal Protection (CPP) supplied by the Australian Federal Police under the RSIPF Rearmament Phases I and II.

Australia, New Zealand and their allies are not inclined to significantly increase the gifting of weapons to the RSIPF as the force's weapon stocks made up a significant majority of the weapons systems employed in the 1998-2003 communal violence and follow on civil war.

Yeah I too wonder about the fighting will of Taiwan's armed forces & population in general. Some reports I read in the past didn't paint an encouraging picture about the commitment levels of Taiwan's younger population. If accurate that would make them quite susceptible to a CCP IO campaign and undermine  the defence of Taiwan. ... not something you want if your putting your own neck on the line to assist.

This is what the rich are doing.....

www.naturalnews.com/2022-05-11-ultra-rich-plan-b-gain-residencies-foreign-countries.html




You know you own an old tractor when......You are proud of your ability to field strip a carburetor.

That book I mentioned "Sovereign Individual" also talks at length about those with the means to do so moving to financially/tax beneficial enclaves with good physical security. ... hence escaping the tax burden in OECD countries. Such moves will significantly reduce the revenues governments pull in resulting in increased tax burdens on the middle class and significantly eroded social welfare programs across the board. That will increase the levels of crime we experience as welfare payments disappear. Happy days. :/

'Aggressive act': Chinese spy ship hugging WA coastline 'without precedent'

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has declared a Chinese PLA intelligence collection warship tracking off the WA coast is an "aggressive act" as it sails within Australia's exclusive economic zone.



"I think particularly because it has come so far south – for it to come south of Exmouth is without precedent and for it to hug the coastline the way in which it has and heading up toward the north," Mr Dutton said.

They will honestly just keep on doing things like this until everyone's entirely complacent and then they'll start moving onto our shores and saying Australia is historically part of their land at this rate -.-

That's true. I don't have any first nations blood so I can't claim to know for sure but I feel pretty comfortable that it was long enough ago that most first nations people would be just as pissed with Chinese invasion of Australia as everyone else.