This is where it’s useful to have things like the beloved British Monarchy to unify people under a ‘Commonwealth.’
I know a lot about New Caladonia.
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That’s where the guys on McCale’s Navy would always visit for R&R!
Red China has been making significant “fishing” and construction inroads into the western Pacific region, a fact largely ignored by the western/US media.
As I recall, Libya once tried to buy into some of the islands, and Red China, besides having significant influence in Vanatu, has made some overtures or inroads inti strategic Fiji, where a maoist organization was vying for power.
What Americans never read in US history is that the Soviet-directed Communist Party USA made a strong bid to takeover the US colonial island chain known as Hawaii, in the late 1940’s.
CPUSA cadre under the leadership of later Prof. Ewart Guinier (Harvard Un. chairman of African Studies) and his wife, Eugenie, set up “canteens” for American servicemen stationed there. They propagandized for the Soviets to the point that the US Naval Commandant of Hawaii threw them out as subversives.
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Sen. Judiciary Committee, held a series of hearings (with Appendixes) between Feb. 8, 1956 and Sept. 24, 1957, amounting to Volumes 1-90 plus Appendixes to the Hawaii hearing Dec.(3,4) 5-6, 1956. Exposed as a CPUSA/Soviet plot was the CP-dominated newspaper the Honolulu Record, once of whose key writers was Barack Obama’s friend (and often called one of his mentors), Frank Marshall Davis (of CPUSA activities in Chicago, and sent to Hawaii by two Soviet agents/CPUSA leaders, harry Bridges, president of the ILWU (International Longshoremen & Warehouse Workers Union - totally CPUSA controlled out of California, Oregon and Washington State, and Paul Robeson (singer, actor, etc), a longtime Soviet agent (should have been KGB but might have been Soviet military intelligence, the GRU).
All this is documented not only in the SISS hearings but also in Prof. Paul Kengor’s very important book, “The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of barck Obama’s Mentor”, Threshold Editiosn/Mercury Ink (a Division of Simon & Schuster), 2012.
The ILWU, led by CP operative Martin Hall, was the key organized subversive organization engaged in trying to help the CPUSA, takeover the nascient Democrat Party movement. Fortunately a then patriotic, Democrat liberal former military hero and rising young politician named Daniel Inouye (and other WW2 vets), thwarted this takeover, along with the defection of “Jack Kawano” whose testimony in 1956 helped expose what was really going on right under the noses of the liberal establishment.
Red China is going to continue to probe, bribe, and subvert Pacific islands through business opportunities/port construction contracts, under the table donations to leftist and opportunist political figures, exacerbate tribal/Islander vs. French/British/American inhabitants, and propagandize against any ties to the US, French or British/Australian military including the establishment or use of existing bases there.
I hope our Pacific Command is on the ball there. I didn’t feel that it was under the Obama traitorous regime.