Questions over Solomons drama

We read in the article “Protests rocks Solomon Islands: Here’s what’s behind the unrest” by The New York Times’ Australia bureau reporter Yan Zhuang (Nov 26) that Malaita’s premier Daniel Suidani, a vocal critic of the Solomon Islands prime minister, said: “Over the last 20 years, Manasseh Sogavare has been in power, the plight of Solomon Islanders has worsened whilst at the same time foreigners have reaped the best of the country’s resources.
“People are not blind to this and do not want to be cheated anymore.”
I wonder if that kind of perception of external influence in the Solomons has any bearing on other Pacific island countries as well?

Rajend Naidu
Sydney