WASHINGTON—An ousted Solomon Islands politician is speaking out against China’s communist regime, which he claims has infiltrated his own government and is seeking to do the same elsewhere.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a single-party state, is bribing politicians throughout the Solomon Islands and weaponizing the Pacific Islands nation for its own purposes, said former Malaita Province Premier Daniel Suidani.
“People need to be aware of the way that the CCP is dealing with development in our country,” Suidani said at an April 28 talk at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
“They do not share our values at all.”…