In Parliament, MPs debate Chinese interference. Outside, a visitor shares his cautionary tale

One of the world’s most riveting tales of Chinese political interference was unfolding last week in Ottawa. 

No, not the story of Canadian MPs and their families being targeted by Beijing. This one is different. 

Amid a tempestuous debate among Canadian parliamentarians over China’s interference in Canadian domestic politics, it’s unclear if many MPs noticed a visitor in their midst.

The leader of a deposed government from a remote tropical island came to share a cautionary tale: his own.

It’s about how his provincial government collapsed after it began opposing the pro-Beijing policies of the national government, in the Solomon Islands.

It’s an absorbing account involving