It wasn’t the case of foreign meddling (& the like ) creating anti-Chinese sentiment. It was (pre-existing) anti-Chinese sentiment which made it easy for people to accept meddling charges & hold the Chinese community collectively responsible.Both the govt. & opposition in the Solomon’s played anti-Chinese sentiment –when it suited them ( a case of heads you win, tails I loose, for the Chinese).

Chinese minorities & to a lesser extent the Indian minorities throughout the region tend to be quite successful in commerce.As a result they are more affluent than, & envied by, the less commercially adept, indigene races. This envy often leads to violence attacks on them.

A stark example is Indonesia:The Indonesian Chinese minority is relatively prosperous, but is made to pay for it by routinely being subjected to mob violence which typically spans the whole gamut of rapes, murders, pillage & arson. It has occurred in 1965-66, 1980, 1991, 1996, 1998, & 2001, and each time a different spark ignites the violence

Malaysia is another, there have been outbreaks of violence against the Chinese minority in Malaysia
in 1964, 1996 & 2000 .

In Tonga, Chinese merchants were banned from one nobles district in 2000 & later in the year after a series of hate crimes against Chinese, 600 Chinese shopkeepers were deported.

There has also violence against Indian interests in Malaysia & Fiji at various times.

Anti-Chinese antipathy is also exhibited in discriminatory legislation. Indonesia & Malaysia have a raft of laws which under various guises restricts the rights and opportunities of their Chinese minorities.

Foreign meddling may have provided the spark this time in the Solomon’s ,but there are many other potential sparks around and history shows that malcontents don’t need a valid reason, even a rumour will be enough morph their envy into mob violence.

Like normal Boaz is right who cares about the solomon islands i dont i dont live there thats why whta i do care about is how it effects me.

mhar:

The official and full name of Taiwan is the Republic of China on Taiwan and Nationalist China is still an informal generic appellation for the Republic of China on Taiwan. Therefore, Nationalist Chinese is still a generic appellation for the people and government of the Republic of China on Taiwan regardless of which political party is government at the time. However to make clear the synonymous relation between the Republic of China and Taiwan, the description of the Taiwanese and their government may be rendered, using a solidus, as Nationalist Chinese/Taiwanese (as I have done above) or, using brackets, Nationalist Chinese (Taiwanese), or vice versa. This is curious only to you.