How will the Games Affect Local Athletes. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Chris Cottrell.

Christopher Cottrell is an Indo-Pacific focused editor based out of Bangkok but presently in Suva, Fiji covering the current Fiji elections and South Pacific affairs.

1. He discusses his reporting in China and how Xi’s Belt Road Initiative is going off the side in the Pacific Islands, and how the narrative of anti-colonialism is being hijacked by Beijing’s own colonialist BRI projects in the Pacific Islands.

2. How the Pacific Games for November 2023 in Honiara, Solomon Islands, threatens the well-being and safety of Pacific Islands athletes and their families; and even those young athletes’ opportunities for success at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

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