India, Oct. 26 -- Daniel Suidani scared the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) more than Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, freedom of navigation patrols through the South China Sea, and a newly commissioned nuclear submarine-combined.

Last week he died of kidney failure at age 55 in a hospital in Solomon Islands, with India-donated, never used, dialysis machines a few minutes away.

Understanding why he was so important, why he died, what it means and what to do now, is essential for anyone trying to understand what is going on across the Indo-Pacific, and why the Quad (India, United States, Japan, Australia) is failing.

Suidani was a former elementary school teacher who became premier of the Solomon Island province of Malaita. He ...