China Can STILL Be Defeated

foreign this is going to affect a lot of  these other countries that are suffering from Chinese influence but are  not necessarily standing up I'm thinking well I mean I know Biden recently  on 9 11 he was in Vietnam trying to um beef up relations between the U.S and Vietnam  against China but also like all of the Pacific island nations I don't know we've talked a lot  about that are struggling with really severe Chinese influence operations yes so I think it  was in Alaska if I'm not mistaken b

ut I think he or maybe he was in transit but um words are  really important to understand what's going on on the ground and when you say that a country  like Solomon Islands you know has has gone over to China that it's usually at least initially uh  of just a very small group within the leadership so China will come in Chinese Communist party and  in many cases criminal organizations will come in and develop relationships with a very very small  number of leaders then that money gets then they

become proxies who spread the money throughout  the systems and it kind of corrupts the systems from the inside and you get a specific targeting  of and this goes back to the to the warfares of unrestricted Warfare Gourmet lailari has spoken  very very well about this you know about targeting in in the you know apart from everything else  they'll always go after the independent Judiciary um you know the the media and the uh kind  of psychology of governance and the ultimate goal is to metastasiz

e the Chinese system  which means the destruction of democracy um and the the replication of it you know there's  that that parasite to use the parasite model again that um gets gets into the host and then takes  over its brain and then runs the host uh from from the inside and that's kind of the model  now what does that mean in the context of uh a place like Solomon Islands uh Solomon Islands  the leadership of Solomon Islands has indeed signed the security deal with China this is  not popular

on the ground and if they had free and fair elections it would change  that's why the Chinese proxies are going after the elections that's why they have already  delayed elections once so these countries are not lost to China I've heard I've heard it repeatedly  said oh you know Solomon's has lost to China first of all when a country recognizes Taiwan it's  not like Beijing says oh that country has lost to Taiwan they stick around and continue to fight  their Corner similarly if you if if you w

ant to give the people if you truly believe in the world  as one family and you're and you believe in the people which we should as proponents of democracy  you you bolster the elements within that country that are important to the people and uh  unfortunately what's happened in Solomon's is you know that there's been a focus on what  the leadership wants which is very similar to the appeasement process that you see with China so  Australia has for example thrown in like a hundred million Austra

lian dollars towards the Pacific  games which is going to be associated with China anyway uh but uh I was in Solomon's recently  and went to the hospital local hospital there and if they had put one tenth  of that into the local hospital Australia would be so much more popular on  the ground in Solomon's you know and the idea of Engagement with the West would be so  much more popular with Solomon Islanders than than with China and um and then you ensure  that there's democracy if China shows up

with the peace Arc which they did they're  the only ones providing us with health care and you've rigged the elections anyway and we're  too weak and tired to fight and if this is the way the country is going to go that's what  it's going to go we don't have any options so until you know there until you actually provide  those options um you're leaving the playing field to China I think my argument makes sense but  I could be unsure tell me what I've missed well so do you think with the US and 

Australia these Western Powers failing for example the people of Solomon Islands do you  think the actions of India and the Philippines could provide some kind of Solace to  them and Empower a movement against Chinese Communist incursion yeah they just I mean  they there's so many countries that just want an option they just want it up and and that's why  um you know when Prime Minister Modi went to Papua New Guinea in May and proposed this you know  12-point plan uh for the for the Pacific Isla

nds um they were things like setting  up a dialysis unit in every country at you'd think this is an area that has incredibly  High diabetes rates why hasn't Australia helped with that already you know why are why are we  at this point in history but what what India is offering and and this is another thing is that  you know we talk a lot about security cooperation and and again you know there's a there is a  discussion now about whether Australia should help this Pro PRC prime minister the Solom

ons who  landed in China recently and said it's good to be home whether you know he's now said he wants  a military so the discussion is whether Australia should help him build a military now they're  doing it under the rubric of security cooperation again if you get back to kind of putting  the family at the core of interactions then you can expand the definition of security from  that kind of hard security to human security and what do you need for human security you  you need a hospital you n

eed roads that work you need affordable telecoms in case of emergency  so you know accepting this uh kind of almost this Chinese definition of security or very traditional  definition of security doesn't doesn't resonate locally and actually doesn't really provide  security unless you know it provides in fact an opening for China because they're going to  out securitize your security anyway especially if you get these increasingly authoritarian  leaders in so on the human security front if you c

hange the terminology from security just heart  straightforward security to human security India is extremely good at it because it's had to deal  with so many of these issues in a similar climate uh at home with flooding and erosion and remote  Villages and small-scale economics and education um you know in remote areas small classrooms  all that sort of stuff so the model that that India is proposing and I'm sure there are  models from others others I'm sure there are lessons to be learned fro

m the Philippines  in the Pacific Islands or you know from any number of countries so seeing that kind of  interaction or Africa I mean so it's great the African Union is now in the G20 might start  to create more of this sort of human security that ideally would bolster  democracy which makes it a very um unappetizing or more difficult host for the  parasitic Chinese Communist Party sounds like India would be a much better Steward of the region  than Australia I don't know what to tell you I th

ink there are a lot of really real trillions who  understand everything that I'm saying and who've served on the ground and who've sacrificed  and who are trying to make things better but this is uh all the political parties and  trying to in in Australia Freudian slip there um you know seem to have fallen into this uh  trap of of looking at the Pacific as as basically political politically inconvenient if independent  and so they you know they were colonists in the area until quite recently unt

il the 70s and  the idea of these of independent countries is complicated and uh and they've overtly  said in in for example the the I think it was 2017 white paper you know that the goal is to  integrate the Pacific Islands economically and in terms of security with Australia you know they'd  like everybody to use the Australian dollar and to be you know basically part of the uh you know  Australian military to have Australian military on the ground some do I mean this is you've you've  I've se

en it quite often variations on this theme I mean these are postcolonial countries there's  no way they want to do that and and ultimately if Australia can't particularly consistently  defend itself from Chinese political Warfare why do we even think they'll do it effectively in  the Pacific Islands and if Pacific Islanders in Australia and New Zealand New Zealand says  the same thing and doesn't do great either have higher rates of you know poverty education  things like that why do we think th

at Australian systems particularly understand the  needs of Pacific Islanders either better especially better than Pacific Islanders  themselves doesn't make any sense so you need to again as with the family you know  you can be tied together but you're you're in you make independent decisions and  you trust people to be to that you don't have a choice you have to let people make independent  decisions and then create an environment where there's enough Social Capital trust Goodwill  uh joint va

lues that you work together without it being a compulsion uh which is where the  the real problems start to come in especially in this kind of integrated model that Australia  and New Zealand have been pushing in the region foreign [Music]