VUW Professor Jon Fraenkel has criticized radio/TV journalist Barbara Dreaver for her supposedly dated and limited explanation as a conflict between Honiara on the island of Guadalcanal and the nearby populous island of Malaita (see my footnote at the end), positing instead that ...
...the current conflict is mainly due to social and economic inequalities, large scale youth unemployment, and corruption exacerbated by slush funds from mainland China paid to MPs who voted for the switch in recognition from Taiwan to Beijing.
