Foreign Digest: Communist China, Papua New Guinea and Iran

Communist China and Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea last week rejected a Communist Chinese proposal to station police on its soil. Peking uses the presence of police on foreign soil against exiles. The United States, which had signed a security agreement with Papua New Guinea last year that I had posted about, had discouraged the move. The U.S. has been trying to counter growing Communist Chinese influence in the Pacific. Iran: There was record-low turnout in the parliamentary elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday, as opponents to the theocratic Islamist regime urged non-participation to deprive the elections, which are not free and fair, of legitimacy. The tyrannical Iranian theocracy only permits candidates who do not oppose Islamism, and do not permit basic freedoms.