‘ Color revolution’ in islands

Australia has long been openly infiltrating the governments and judicial systems of Pacific Island countries, as well as local nongovernmental organizations ( NGOs), constantly spreading Western ideology and values to cultivate local people to be pro- Australian, Yu Lei, a chief research fellow at the Research Center for Pacific Island Countries of the Liaocheng University, told the Global Times.

Colluding with the US, Australia has tried to overthrow the leaders in the region it does not like with methods similar to color revolutions.

The US diplomatic cables from 2006, which were exposed by WikiLeaks in 2011, revealed Washington’s involvement in the “Australian government’s campaign to oust then Solomon Islands Prime Minister Sogavare.”

Around 2006, Sogavare called on the

Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands ( RAMSI) sent by the Australian government to leave his country. The RAMSI was sent to the Solomon Islands in 2003 to help deal with the country’s civil unrest at the time. How wever, it continued to stay there for years after the unrest subsided.

Sogavare’s stance against Western infiltration and intervention enraged Australia. Exposed cables showed that then Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, once called and told Sogavare, “I will make things very difficult for you and your government.” Sogavare stepped down the following year in 2007.

More recently, after the riots in Honiara in November 2021, Sogavare, who was elected as prime minister again in 2018, told the press that the crisis was “influenced and encouraged by other powers.”