China Exports Fengqiao Surveillance Model to Solomon Islands

China Exports Fengqiao Surveillance Model to Solomon Islands
Above: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare (L) during a ceremony in Honiara on Nov. 4, 2022. Image copyright: Gina Maka/AFP/Getty Images

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Pro-China narrative

The Fengqiao model is an innovative approach to community policing that addresses real security challenges in Solomon Islands. The Fighter One community faces genuine problems with social disorder and lawlessness that traditional systems have failed to resolve effectively. This data-driven approach provides essential population management tools and security infrastructure that impoverished communities desperately need for stability and development.

Anti-China narrative

This surveillance system fundamentally violates constitutional rights and undermines traditional Solomon Islands governance structures, which are centered around village chiefs. The Fengqiao model blatantly overlooks local culture and customs, instead imposing an invasive, authoritarian framework that monitors and controls citizens, rather than empowering communities through genuine, legitimate democratic processes and traditional leadership systems.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 20% chance that the Solomon Islands will host a Chinese military base before 2032, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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