Why an independence fight is sweeping French New Caledonia 

That's how they roll. Hypocrites.

France supports israel. its the village idi0ts that support palestine.

Funnly enough the french goverment support israel and the ones who are protesting probably will support this independence movement

the NC protesters are the local rabbles who , cant make it to the higher echelon of society . They were duped by the deceit of azerbajian , they probably promised them riches beyond their wildest dreams.

Make you wonder if most French even know the island exist

Always about resources. Never use your own if you can take someone else’s.

If New Caledonia became independent it would turn into a country like Singapore or Israel. Instead, like all French colonies it is poor and stripped.

Not really just France alone. Australia and the U.S. want France there too, because if China sets up a military base on the island they could effectively encircle Australia and blockade our eastern seaboard. This would greatly threaten Australian naval forces in the pacific and may provide China a launch platform for an invasion of Australia and New Zealand. Or it could even be used to house Chinas growing nuclear sub fleet which will provide it the opportunity to annihilate major Australian cities and ensure nuclear winter comes to the Southern Hemisphere by militarising the Oceanic region. The U.S. pacific fleet will be forced to split its forces away from the East Asia and attempt to secure New Caledonia. Having Chinese forces on New Caledonia would also make the island a nuclear target in the event of war. So until China either collapses or is no longer a threat militarily New Caledonia won’t receive its independence.

@@sztypetttolol it will probably just devolve into a ruthless dictatorship that hordes all the wealth with the elites That’s almost always what’s happened when colonies become independent

its the fourth, behind Indonesia, the Philippines and Russia.

this was on BBC news days ago

@@florianluo8131 I am subscribed to BBC too but it didn’t pop up. So that is a major difference.

@@lc8850 nope, was on main page. And days before SCMP. But a lazy narrative like yours is just more fun. Covered the voting issues two days ago and the protests 12 hours ago.

This was on BBC, Guardian, and Al jazeera before this post.

It's pretty big news in francophone sphere. Maybe not so much for you Anglophone, which is weird because usually the BBC will make sure to broadcast bad news about France as much as possible.

🧐 ÷ is not ×.

You know they use miles in America right ?

​​@@user-gw8it3su2nNews in english include miles because a lot of english speakers are from the US. If this news was in spanish or any other language, only kilometers would have been used.

I don't think it's about the use of miles but the number is wrong. 17000km is roughly 10500 miles. 27000 miles is pretty much full circle around the globe.

​@AleXwern so basically, Paris is 27,000 miles from Paris. Lol

And you want to disregard the opinion of the Polynesian and French Community because they’ve only lived there for hundreds of years. In a democracy every vote is equal. People shouldn’t suffer because of their ancestors.

The whole US are a colony 😅 Every country is the Americas is an old colony

@@erikthomsen4768 Give me a break some of the migrants came there within the last 10 years, so save it! This is a absolute take over of indigenous land. The French need to go! We all know France is weak in the world stage

Like Tibet, you mean

Survival of the fittest

no, it's unexploited and wasted potential. It's the geolocation of the place and the fact it's been French for a while now

Are you even paying attention? A majority of French citizens voted to remain part of France. That’s why France cares.

it's the position, and the fact than independence of New Caledonia might have a domino effect on Martinique, Reunion, Guyana, Guadeloupe, Tahiti ... so France will never allow New Caledonia to leave

@@ddoumeche Most locals don't want leave France. Not everything is about greed.

​​​​@@ddoumecheThat's just wrong. First the "i will google to search whatever minerao ressources they have and then claim that the whole thing is about that to look smart" trust me, you don't. and then most of the places you mentioned have absolutely 0 ambition to be independant, it would serve no purpose whatsoever for them 🤣 Third in the list of places you named you talked about "Haïti" apparently bro missed the fact that France isn't in power there since 1804 And fourth you apparently also missed that many french islands ALREADY took their independances in the Comorian archipelagos except Mayotte. And France was more than happy to get rid of what was seen as financial liability for little to no geostrategic interest There's no great plan to control the Nouvelle Calédonie, the territory is already french, there has been more than 3 referendums about it now, and the people able to vote are the same since 1998 since they frozen the electoral count to not just great replace what was already a tiny minority At that point people just can't claim to be for democracy if they want Nouvelle Calédonie sudden independance from France, btw they already have the most independance you can think of while being part of France, only next step possible is complete separation

Can you see that in referendum majority of new caledonian vote to remain in france? The new caledonian people wanted their island to be part of france and with that new caledonia officially part of france. French didn't colonialized new caledonia as the people there still want to be part of france.

The US does it too, just look at Guam and Puerto Rico

​@@cosmicusstardust3300nah thats the result of US beat Spain in America-Spanish war in 19th century. Instead let me guide you to US least known occupation, Hawaii

French should give them Independence . Then send them a bill for Hospitals , Schools , Roads Water supplies etc that they built for them..? € 20 billion would be enough ??

​@2msvalkyrie529 Pay back the nickel exploitation and rent for docking ships with interest since 1800s then we can talk

The president of new caledonia is a native kanak.

The rioters are those who can't go up in societal hierarchy ,in a fair and civilized contest against their peers. They were also duped by another foreign power who have interests in new caledonia.

@@frankjames7272 Indeed... And the title!? Too much for his own very Little atributes of real power... France has Only One President who has all powers given by Constitution since General Charles de Gaulle reform of the Fifth Republic back in 1959...

@@viorelpiscanu9425 that is how it works . new caledonia is a special territory of france its the same as a province .

@@frankjames7272 I KNOW... IT SEEMS not ENOUGH power SHARING with local inhabitans Kanaks! This could be a major relevant problem for PARIS... And the new Law is not very friendly with Kanaks... As I LEARNED from open SOURCES of Media...

.....and Tahiti and some Caribbean nations

This is not a colony you idiot. It has been a proper province of France for close to a century. When asked the local population vote to remain part of France.

@@gareztakat5356 + Central Africa

New Caledonia had 3 referendum for independance. Would you do the same for Tibet and Hong Kong?

@@gontrandjojo9747 Donbass and Luhansk did multiple referendums and yet they where called illegitimate by the west lol.

you can bet your bottom dollar China is going to now point this out to the West.

Because it's not about Taiwansp independence.. there's something behind it

Taiwan actually has their own government, China could only cope and Beijing has NO actual control of the island, NC is under direct French rule, thats different, cope CCP bot,

When was the last time France shelled New Caldonia?

Because New Caledonia is NOT a geopolitically important to Americans. They don’t have advanced technology in semiconductor industries and they aren’t located anywhere that would disrupt global trade route to the west, understand?

This minority is overrepresented in the democratic system because French citizens who were weren’t born on the island before 1986 can’t vote.

@@erikthomsen4768honestly if the kanak don’t want non-kanak voting, it should stay like that. That’s like the US getting mad that all their citizens living in South Korea don’t have a vote either. That law should’ve never been passed by France because in 30/40 years the Kanak will definitely be outnumbered in voting

@@santospaul8103 We are not talking about people in a foreign country. But more like Hawaii where despite the distance this is an intergrated part of the country. New Caledonia is a province in the same way as Hawaii is a state. Not a colony as some misinformed people would like to believe. Why should certain people be discriminated against when they all live on the Island? That sounds awfully racist to me. Imagine the uproar if they did that in the US.

@@erikthomsen4768 at the end of the day, if the people who have been living there decide what they want for their land regardless of their status as a territory it should be respected, also I know not ALL Kanaks have a problem with this since a lot of the protest have been met with counter-protest but if there IS a group who don’t agree with what the Government of France passed, they can exercise that right and protect their homes

Read more bro

Free Caledonia!!

Agree 💯 💯

People voted for remaining with French. They’re just aggressive group of people that need to be taught 😊😊😊

France, Britain and the US are a problem of this world

Yes and replace it with ignorance that cant wipe its own a## and wants to be taught how to organize industrial systems for itself. So before you go Pierre , please set us up and then fk off. Sort of like South Africa. Reappropriations of farms from whites and then ask them to tell you and show you how to run the farms and businesses. Yah sure. That sounds fair. The price of ingratitude is in the mail global termites.

yep, just like how they call themselves expats while the rest of the world as immigrants.

Because for French, its their land .. just like Israelis .. ( they think that in their mind )

Asians are native while French are settlers

​@xyeB no, Asians are not, their on an entirely different continent, this is Oceania. It's like saying Asians are native to Australia

@@chaye1077 who are native then? Pacific Islanders? Yes.

Did not the kanak themselves travel by boats from fiji to colonise a largely deserted island?

do live in france or any of its "colonies"?

@@bromion5123they dont steal the resources ad bring them to their “original” homeland. Use brain not skin.

Do not be a bigot! Those French are kanaks too!

its a bit of nonsense that currently french citizens living in the island, contributing to the economy for more than 10 years can't vote for local election and meanwhile in mainland france most illegal immigrant have very high chances to receive french nationality and vote in any election within 10 years too...

i don't remember Hong Kong was offered 3 times a referendum, and rejected independance every time. Even if i'm not a supporter of Hong Kong's independance. Plus, it's not like if France actually done anything about Hong Kong.

"Riots" not "protests"

@@bretonneux3389Referendum influenced by the French govt no?

@@salvationude-natha398 what do you mean "influenced" ? since the question is to leave the rule of the french government or to keept it, of course there has been "influence". But not rigged, if that's what you are asking.

@@bretonneux3389 And you think the new macron bill in election is going to help with that? Miss me sir lol

or for your own greed.

and for your own greed!

Yes.! And stop coming to Europe Illegally !! Most people in Europe would be very happy with that ? I'm sure you agree ?? 😂😂

fight for your toilet first

@@ttbrown9700 definitely

Crux of the matter...most of the earnings of that huge nickel deposits goes back to France

they're largely unexploited so far

​@@ratumelimatanatoto2488 not really, it's a wasted potential so far, left nearly untouched. It's more of the strategic location of New Caledonia and the fact it's been French for centuries now

France is there because a majority of her citizens voted to remain part of France.

@@ratumelimatanatoto2488 Is that why New Caledonia is the 4th richest Island in the area, only surpassed by the likes of Australia and New Zealand... ? It's just sad how the lots of you brand New Caledonia as a colony when all its citizens have French nationality and can vote. Get a grip.

This is how people with no stake in a colonial system that has impoverished, alienated, and marginalized them for more than a century, react. Nothing weird. Sociology 101.

its a bit of nonsense that currently french citizens living in the island, contributing to the economy for more than 10 years can't vote for local election and meanwhile in mainland france most illegal immigrant have very high chances to receive french nationality and vote in any election within 10 years too...

they voted to remain french. Educate yourself

@@9grand You trust those results?

​@@Halcon_Sierreno I can ask you the same question. What makes you say that the referendums were rigged? Not everyone think the same. I know 2 guys who are Kanak from New Caledonia and they believe they are better by staying with France. It's not because a few people are very loud and make protests in the streets that they represent everyone. I live in Québec (Canada) and over here as well people in the past wanted independance, but after two referendums in the 1980s and 1990s, the majority voted to stay with Canada twice. Adding borders and becoming independant isn't always the best option economically and for the well being and stability of society as a whole.

LOL, I bet once independent, they will ask OZ/NZ for foreign aids.

Free africa we are African not arabs or European

So now you want to deport over half the population who have lived there for a hundred years or more? You can’t just ignore democracy because of ancestry.

How about the independence of Kabylia, why are Kabiles being oppressed by the algerian government?

@@shakur960 Wrong color. The world will never support you.

the only lesson they should take is PROTECT YOUR PEOPLE AT ALL COSTS. arabs in Algeria ethnically clensed europeans and jews, i definately dont want to see that happen in New Caledonia, so i fully support France. you know, if arabs can vote in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, then white people can vote in New Caledonia. period

@@bsod111 On the other hand, is it right that arabs and africans and whoever can vote in France? Should I as a native Swede have the right to vote in France? How about France to the French and New Caledonia to to the native Kanaks?

@@janbarsk3077 Just look at the mess Sweden is now in with riots by immigrants, rapes theft is all on the increase

The 2 are different! In New Caledonia there were 3 referendums before this and 2 of these were lost while the third was boycotted by independence supporters. This never happened in Algeria.

@@janbarsk3077 france for the french ? oh ok, then all immigrants in France must leave right ? we know it's not going to happen. And the native Kanaks being only 40 % of the population....nope, since it's not France only for the native french, it won't New Caledonia only for the native kanaks

they voted to remain french

The real question is whether an independent NC can survive on its own without foreign aids.

​@@RUHappyATMFR FR FR EVERYONE TALK ABOUT "FREE CALEDONIA" BUT THEY ARE JUST GOTTA GET COLONIZE WITH CHINESES CONTRACT 💀💀💀

ah, foreign aids. keeping a nation hostage with aids.

look uk they have many

They held two independence referendum’s without incident. Things aren’t as colonial as you would like it to be.

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Free free😊

Caledonia is Scotland, and i agree it should be free, but new Caledonia is rightfully French

They voted to remain part of France.

@@benigncreation8339 By importing their citizens there. I really hope the Chinese help these people out to gain their independence, right now the Chinese are in the Solomon islands.

What's the point of economic stability if you're colonized

@@jadefr7518 Why doesn't China take control of Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Tonga and the rest of the islands in that area

@@cs4155for the same reason why France wants out of those islands. Money sink.

@@NarasimhaDiyasena So far there is no sign of France leaving even after 173 years of exploiting the mineral, agricultural, and maritime resources of Kanaky for the benefits of the settler class and the French ruling elite. It's now looking to annex it via "referendums" it organized and presided over and crush the resistance to its occupation with an additional 2,000 policeman from France.

Well I'm pretty sure that being of the largest nickel deposits among other natural resources will invite allies willing to help. Two of the major western nations that would rush to help an independent caledonia would be obviously australia, which is already a giant in the world of mining minerals & metals. The other would be the US, both of these countries would also try to cultivate friendship with the new govt of caledonia simply because they don't want the chinese to move in. Infact this could make Major world powers compete with each other to win contracts to large natural resources and friendly relations with the newly independent government

This is not a colony you idiot. It’s a province of proportional representation in Paris. They voted to remain part of France on three separate occasions in the past few years.

Its not, but I guess you sound cool

It was the 16th 🤦‍♂️ even with sterotype you cant do that

Honestly, it's very "French" what's happening in New Caledonia. In recent years, many people have seen their social rights reduced, in New Caledonia as in France, because of recent reforms. There have even been numerous demonstrations all over France because of this (it's also been covered by the news). Even if certain countries want to fuel the conflict (we see you Chinese velites, where were you for the Uyghurs?), the French government is paying for an accumulation of numerous unpopular reforms.

They're proud and ready to defend their rights. Are you ?

@@juliendurand1178 They did in fact revolt against Louis XIV as well. That was called ""Le Fronde" but @jinzo2678 probably wanted to say "16th" as you suggested.

@@janbarsk3077Yeah well that was just nobles protesting against absolutism that was emerging when Louis XIV still was a teenager, nothing to do with 1789…

Shut up

free Artsakh, you turk imperialist

I think they have the right to. But I also think that they would end up far worse if independent.

They voted to stay part of France.

@@RK-cj4oc this is fake news

Please do not interfere in french internal affairs

This is not colonialism. It’s democracy. This province is equal to those in French provinces in Europe and the Islanders voted to remain part of France.

Democracy is not colonialism. Period!

Like?

@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors A... WITH OTHER DOMESTIC ISSUES... SORRY... 🍀👍🤝

​@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors bug problems and pest control

@@MultiverseRaidenWarriors everything. (google french protests and you'll see alot of them)

I'd suggest you don't comment about stuff you know 0 about. The GDP per capita in New Caledonia is 36k$ per year, much higher than neighbouring islands thanks to French subsidies. The islands voted to remain French on 3 occasions, and they're richer, more developed thanks to France. They can also vote - not too bad no?

@@aa6dccanother Algeria

@@rw9833 can you elaborate? New Caledonia did 3 referendums, all chose to remain in France - not the same situation. Nowhere near the scale of Algeria either. Or are you perhaps suggesting France should teach New Caledonia a lesson just like it did to Algeria on May 8th 1945?

@@rw9833 so I'll ask again, how is this similar to alg*ria? It's much poorer and less developed than New Caledonia, only thing in common is being a testing ground for French nukes another difference is New Caledonia will never be an independent country, unlike alg*ria (who lost their war from a military but not a political standpoint)

@@aa6dcc You are talking to an idiot. They won’t listen because they only care about hearing their voice. It would be best to ignore this sort of troll.

vote for referendums now

And bankrupt in 2028. !!

@@2msvalkyrie529 They won't if they could expel ALL THE COLONIZERS and the descendants of the French criminals.

@@TWB10 .... where ONLY NATIVES SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE!

​@@2msvalkyrie529fr they destroyed every shops,so no economy citizen are making neighborhood defence also kanaks wanna expulse everything that are non kanaks

It's actually not so bad since they're at 41% and growing back up in population now. Meanwhile the US, Canada, Australia and other british colonies have their natives at less than 4% each. There's way worse to look at when it comes to colonies.

These people did nothing. You can’t take peoples right to vote because of their ancestry.

@@tanez778so diversity bad? Thanks for saying it you guys 🎉

But most of the population voted to remain part of France! This is not a colony. It’s a province with proportional representation.

If a country votes to remain with the colonizer, it is the colonizer who should be forced to stay in that country.

@marccru yes but thanks to colonization the indigenous kanaks are out numbered and are less then 50 percent because more and more french settlers are moving

@@Lomez07 Dude, indigenous people in Australia, NZ and Hawai are less than 10%. We don't hear anglo SJW asking for europeans and others to leave. But of course when it's France they are colonies.

You do realize that they will loose the protection of the French Military.

and become the new Haïti

Agree 💯 💯

Ever heard of Hawaii? Is it true that White citizens are allowed to vote there? How racist! 😂

SAYS WHO???..COMMON SENSE??..LIKE YOURS...NO THANKS

Ever heard of Hawaii?

@@Emeric62 yeah America shouldn’t be ruling that island either but they aren’t uprising

You french eat baguette?

@@hanawolfgang nah mate aussie

How was the holiday?

​@@TragicXOOfficialGoogle translate can't translate Aussie😢

@@ElectrostatiCrow yeah not bad :)

And what's China's position on Tibet and the Uighurs?

But westerners are always claiming they are better than china. Muh western values n shiet. Then they shouldn't be hypocrite on taiwan and new caledonia.

Stop your BS about Uighurs. Western countries killed more the 1 million innocents in Irak and Afghanistan... and you care about muslims in China? Uighurs and Taiwan are another one of your lies. You just want to stop China ascension 😊

​@@mrAZcardinalthey live together - this is China's position

​@@RezetRoy Lol no. Tibetans want freedom...it's a well known fact . There is a reason why china never allowed foreign internet companies within china and banned all of them

One strategy they do is move in white people so that these whites become indigenous. Hah. Crazy world we are living in

says a random internet user. dont meddle your not qualified to weigh in

The Kanak culture is very inclusive. During the code de l'indigenat which affected both the Kanaks and indentured laborers, laborers left their children in the care of Kanak elders who nurtured them, made sure they attended schools and helped them with homework.

Let me guess you were one of those guys who know so little about this island that you think it’s the 18th century and somehow still a colony?

@@erikthomsen4768 Pretty much. This ill informed idiots are all over RU-vid. Guessing there are a lot of BOTs

The Islanders voted against independence because they wanted to remain part of France.

says a random internet user. dont meddle your not qualified to weigh in

only boycotted the third. try listening.

1. NC is already self governing for most its domestic policies, including laws 2. They were supposed to define the NC citizenship since 1998, in order to have an 'ordered' independence. They have delayed so much that there are now people who would probably qualify for this citizenship by now who are denied their right of vote. And of top of it, the French government played terribly bad by setting a tight deadline that favors one of the two parties, whereas since 1988 France was supposed to be the referee overseeing what the NC people would decide between themselves. NC is probably the worst skeleton we have in our closet nowadays in France, and trust me, many people in Mainland France want to 'get rid' of NC. Not in a hatred or revengeful way, but because at some point, as in a couple, when you are parting, you need to have things done completely, and not halfway. Especially when halfway means receiving huge lumps of money from us in the mainland.

@@miaouscleaumonocle Give them their freedom and keep your lumps of money.

@@miaouscleaumonocle then how come the place is referred to by a name some white guy who happened to bump into claimed to have 'discovered'?

​@@scottwebb4722How come the Kanaks are chosing calling themselves and the island by another umbrella term that was imposed on them by other white colonials? It's all BS. Not one of them had even bothered to name their island before Europeans showed up.

Nah not really, many part of the Pacific was settled fairly late. Rome has already been sacked a few times before there were humans in New Zealand for example. It's slow coz the Austronesians and other precursor settling the Pacific were from SEA and tend to fill up an island first, then some settlers would move out to find a new island once they feel they're starting to get crowded.

You really believe thats legit just because the french monitor it 😂😂

If I am a resident caledonian I will also say no, what for? Independent New caledonia will eventually be ruled by corrupt politicians. Better be a French citizen.

​@@JamesSmith-uw4nxwell, algeria got it's independence because of referendum so...

@@JamesSmith-uw4nx and do you have evidence against it? I bet none.

Lots of jobs : free health care : Free education and Welfare cheques every month. ?!?! But they want to be Independent...??! Bankrupt in 3 years... 😂😂. Bon Chance...!!

You should know better than this. You should know about the rejection of independence by vote. You should know about the proportional representation that is not found in a colony. But is present here.

So even though they don't want independence what you're saying is you want to kick them out of France.

no one cares what you think. Seriously

says a random internet user. dont meddle your not qualified to weigh in

what was BS about them? Recently settled in people couldn't vote you know?

The only way these votes are BS if you discount over half the population the grounds that they ain’t local enough after hundreds of years.

That's the point. Only a femme people have voted and they have chose to be french

The French state should pay for the damages as it is responsible for the unrest with its refusal to return the archipelago to its rightful owners, the Kanak people.

@@imjamming says who?

No it does not!

Basing from the video. The French expanded voting to citizens on the island. And i guess the minority population feels angry that their small numbers mean less influence in government

It’s not an occupation because the population is an equal part of France and they rejected independence when they had the opportunity to vote on it.

tURKIFIED gREEKS LIVE THERE.....

free america australia and new zealond from european christian occupation, deport europeans to europe

And free the Kurds from Turkey as well.

they are sooo far away

Cyprus is in the middle east it's a Turkish , Syria Lebanon land You should go back where you came from

Yeah I noticed too

Yep

how about indonesia stops occupying parts of East Timor and Papua New Guina whilst doing a g3n*c1d3 there before giving lessons to others yeah?

Why? Because France listens to his citizens who overwhelmingly voted to remain rather than a loud minority?

Chinese Fire Drill...

They don't want independence. They voted three times in the last 20 years to stay with France.

The population voted against independence in the past three referendum. France will never bow to tyranny by the minority.

What's your point

Go away coloniser.

@@milk_chemistry Point is french people living in new caledonia should have the same voting rights

@@Silvergalaxy7383uh no they shouldn't

​@@milk_chemistry They should

Protecting the equality of democracy is not colonialism you halfwit.

How is supporting the majority who want to remain a part of France, opposite to freedom?

​@@erikthomsen4768The ''majority'' by France bring people there all this years. Its a classic old tactics of Divide-Conquer if youre too ignorant to learn

Careful what you wish for. Is PNG still getting foreign aids from Australia?

@@RUHappyATM do you think we are afraid of France and Australia? Are you threatening me? Get on a plane and come to PNG and issue your threat. Bai yu bruk na lus natin lo hia. Do you think PNG needs Australian funding? Australia is continuously funding us because of their geopolitical agenda not because we need their money. Are you Kanaki? Are you Melanesian? Do you belong to the Pacific? Sapos nogat, pasim kan maus blo yu.

@@imxbobola you talk tough. survive on your own without foreign aids.

@@imxbobola BTW WW2 was 79 years ago. Independence was 49 years ago. Learn to stand on your own two feet, get rid of the victimhood mentality.

@@RUHappyATM Ah, you are breaking my heart. PNG was used by Australia as a proxy for their war, not our war. Today, Australia is using PNG again as a proxy for their geopolitical agenda against China. Victim? We are not playing the victim, we have been continually dragged into conflicts that has nothing to do with us. Come prepared here, you dealing with an educated native. PS: Tell France to fark off from the Pacific and leave New Caledonia alone.

The native people were living and thriving on their archipelago long before the French colonizers set foot on the archipelago. The settler class in New Caledonia and the French ruling elite in the mainland only care about their economic and geostrategic interests in Kanaky/New Caledonia.

The British rule America they are the majority in the senate and the congress.

The French multinationals rile France

West papuan participated in the government and its people are running the region.

West papuan are also receiving many infrastructure projects and the country is a multiethnic, not wh@te-centrist.

they voted to remain french.

@@9grand Who voted for those referendums? It's the similar situation as Northern Ireland. Only Aboriginals should be allowed to vote in any referendum - it's that simple. The rest are the descendants of the French criminals and colonizing settlers.

@@9grand French settlers voted with them. The majority of the natives vote for independence.

Exactly. They're the wolf at the door. Look at how the CCP has destroyed the air and water in China.

This is a province not a colony. It has proportional representation in Paris and voted against independence.

China don't have colonies.

France cares about the Islanders because they voted overwhelmingly to remain part of France.

This is not Palestine this is PACIFIC

This is a province with proportional representation. Not a colony is China want you to believe. Most people voted against independence. The matter is settled.

This is France and the local voted keep it that way. They don’t want independence.