“ Isn't the sorry plight of the so-called Pacific Islands or better Moana Oceania at the mercy of geopolitics? With the move of the UK towards the Pacific Islands, a number of key questions do arise. Is this move managed through the spirit, say, of the Commonwealth Sports, which is envisaged more in ceremonial ways, as in the fostering of the common spirit of sportsmanship / sportswomanship or is it envisioned in real terms, as in more economic, political, intellectual and cultural benefits?
Given the depth of dependency, across the whole of the facets of life, mainly through foreign aid and diplomacy and remittances, Pacific Islands as a region will find it a real struggle to free itself from this seemingly eternal bondage, which is kind of well into perpetuity. Unless the Pacific Islands learn it in the hard way to largely stand on their own two feet by efficiently and effectively utilising its rich natural and material and human resources, as in their overly abounding intellectual and cultural and biological property heritage, then there can't be a better way out of this curse in the foreseeable future! ”