David Panuelo: “Free and fair elections need to happen in Solomons as soon as possible.”

I am acutely aware that informing you all of this presents risks to my personal safety; the safety of my family; and the safety of the staff I rely on to support me in this work.

I am clearly aware that I must make the argument not only in terms of preventing war and saving lives, but in terms of how we can fill the gap that would occur if we were to turn off the flow of money from China.

To say it again: China has established a precedent of taking our private citizens in multilateral meetings to formally represent our country without our Government's awareness or approval thereof.

One of the reasons that China's Political Warfare is successful in so many arenas is that we are bribed to be complicit, and bribed to be silent.