This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 38%. (I'm a bot)
> SYDNEY - The large Solomon Islands province of Malaita said it will conduct an independence referendum after rejecting the Pacific nation's decision last year to cut its association with Taiwan and establish formal ties with China.
> Home to about one-quarter of the Solomons' population, the U.S.-aligned Malaita has long held ambitions of becoming its own nation, although it is unlikely an independence vote would be recognised by the central government in Honiara, setting up further discord.
> Malaita Premier Daniel Suidani said in a statement distributed overnight on Tuesday that Honiara had asserted continued pressure on the province to accept China despite knowing Malaita did not recognise the change in diplomatic ties.
> The Solomon Islands, located north of Australia's east coast, is a strategically important Pacific nation that switched diplomatic ties from Taiwan to Beijing last year amid a broader tussle between China and the United States for regional allies.
> Malaita has since discussed plans with the United States and its allies to develop a deep-sea port, while Chinese interests are pursuing development plans on Solomons' principal island of Guadalcanal, where the capital is located.
> Tension between the most populous province and the capital escalated recently when a shipment of medical aid from Taiwan en route to Malaita was seized in Honiara, the Malaita provincial government and Taiwan's Foreign Ministry told Reuters.
Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: Malaita^#1 Solomon^#2 Taiwan^#3 China^#4 island^#5
Post found in /r/worldnews.
NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the [autotldr](http://www.reddit.com/us
... keep reading on reddit ➡
LAST month, Australian troops and federal police officers returned to the Solomon Islands for the first time since 2017. This deployment was approved within 24 hours of the request being made by Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, and Australian boots were on the ground within 72 hours. This was the first time Australian troops and police officers had been in Solomon Islands since 2017, when the Regional Assistance Missions to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) ended after 14 years. As with RAMSI, regional neighbours, including Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand, have since joined Australia in Honiara.
Last week week, Prime Minister Sogavare announced he had also accepted an offer from the Chinese government to provide policing equipment and police officers to support Solomon Islands' national police force.
This is a significant step in the relationship between Solomon Islands and China, and will likely exacerbate the political unrest in Honiara and across the nation. It will have also caught the Australian government off guard. Like Australia's deployment, it is unclear when Chinese police officers and equipment will leave the Solomon Islands.
Australia's willingness to provide support to Solomon Islands demonstrates our interest in maintaining regional security. Insecurity in the region is not in Australia's national interest.
The community violence seen in Solomon Islands leading to this latest deployment is largely based on disputes between those from Guadalcanal and Malaita. These disputes are based on long-held grievances around perceived social, political and economic inequities, with both sides believing they have been mistreated by the other.
Australia and 14 other regional neighbours were involved in the original deployment starting in 2003. Australia contributed the largest number of personnel and greatest level of funding, estimated to be over $2.5 billion. This current deployment, though, is occurring in a different international context to the last. While the current local violence again is based primarily along the same ethnic lines as previously, the local and international security implications have been complicated by the recent rise of China as a large aid donor to the region and its growing influence within the Pacific.
In 2019, Solomon Islands ceased recognising Taiwan and instead recognised only China, thus ending a 36-year relationship with Taiwan. This new relationship with China was accompanied
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
[Removed]
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
