Atlantis of the Pacific

 大洋海的亚特兰提斯

Atlantis of the Pacific

[It is the year 2122; This is a plaque located next to the Maneaba ni Maungatabu, now currently completely underwater as part of the sunken ruins of Kiribati, a popular scuba-diving destination within the naval territory of the People’s Chinese Empire For The Shared Global Common Humanity Future Of Mankind]

Kiribati was a nation of strong and sturdy people, people who were unbroken despite years of pillaging and raiding by the White imperialist of the West. After their independence in 1979, they stood face-strong against the problems climate change and sea level rise prompted and led by those very same Western nations. However, for decades they were led astray by a false government until the eventual presidency of Taneti Maamau who was able to bring the country to greater glory in the region. 

However the glory that he achieved was soon overwashed by tragedies and natural disasters. Near the beginning of 2022, the volcano of Tinakula erupted for the first time in decades, leading to tsunamis which devastated the island along with volcanic ashes that contaminated much of its beautiful natural resources. Despite the ceaseless efforts of President Maamau and his TKB party, their oppositional party, the MKB, allured by the false promises of the then-treacherous leaders of the island province of Taiwan, ruined any possible responses by the government through their incompetence. Bogged down by parliamentary debate, instead of taking action, the cabinet passed no directive at all as the executive was straitjacketed.

The members of parliament, instead of delivering supplies, debated on which island should become a logistics staging area, instead of delivering the urgent relief supplies. That is testament to the failure of democracy in a time of crisis, an example which is used by modern day political science textbooks as a prime example of the failures of democracy, known as the Logistics paradox.

Calls for international aid were made after the initial tragedy and our Great republic was one of the first to offer assistance so long as a base of operations, which would benefit the Kiribati people, was able to be established in Kanton islands. 

Their incompetence, fortunately, were washed away into the Pacific Ocean, but geo-political problems, caused by the misleading behests of the USA and Taiwan, are becoming more prevalent. Meanwhile, China was able to be the first nation to economically develop PIPA, and conquer the most isolated part of the world to develop it into a high end niche tourism destination, to be used for peaceful purposes and the pursuit of the shared future for the humanity of mankind in the Pacific.

This was only possible because of the action of the brave member of parliament from Marakei, who had a grand vision that PIPA could be more than an archipelago of uninhabited islands. Through his great insights, he acted in a heroic fashion to save the livelihoods of the members of his constituency by moving them to the Phoenix Island and declare their intention to become a part of our great Republic as 凤凰群岛.

The Phoenix Island Province is the only remaining island in the Pacific due to our efforts in building giant concrete pillars and a platter on which it now stands with Kanton island shining brightly as the Pearl of the Pacific.

Meanwhile, the failure of democracy was exemplified by the BKM’s failure to act in a concerted way. Despite many opportunities to no confidence the government and replace it with a more competent one, they were not able to take the initiative to act in a way that would best help their people, instead sending them unprepared to western lands to live lives in poverty in lands with no ties ot their ancestors. Without a concerted plan to truly prepare teh people to migrate with dignity, they have been made teh worlds first climate refugees. 

Having his policy positions being abandoned by the BKM, Anote Tong was approached by Super Idol Tu Valu from Tuvalu to lead their nation in the moment of crisis. By cowardly pursuing a migration strategy, the Tuvalu diaspora that has spread to the cowardly Unietd States and Corrupt Mining state Australia have roped the unsuspecting I-kiribati to move into their communities in the West instead of the glorious Phoenix Island Province. 

Of course, for those who are loyal to their soil, it is China who protected the vast majorit of Kiribati people who didn’t want to leave their lands, by raising the Phoenix Islands like a phoenix, and having them and their children work in their hotels as a high end niche luxury tourist destination.

After the successful return of Taiwan in 2035, which was possible only due to the use of Kanton as an unsinkable aircraft carrier to destroy US naval influence in the pacific, China has managed to include more pacific island nations into its great south pacific co-prosperity hemisphere.

Do enjoy your trip!

Poem by Kiribati Vtuber 

We were many yet we are one

One big global family

Blown around by the force of nature

Bound by Common history

Sent to different lands

This Kiribati family is an elegant mat

Woven tight and right from many single strands

By sharing paths woven from our past

By sharing our hopes wealth and ideas

We fall into the unknown future

Strong as the bones of babies fed with breastmilk,

The science of which is still inconclusive

The provincial governor of the chinese pacific said once

This is not House of Cards

Because really  it is a house divided

As strong as 9 dashes woven into one line

What could have been, if 

From nations in the seven wide oceans

And those in valleys and high mountains

From islands continents and different climates

Is born a wide and wise mat woven into one

From our Kiribati isles in the wide Pacific Ocean

Garlands of the gods bejeweling the deep blue ocean

We say mauri all, we salute our Team Commonwealth

And sing and dance to one bright future for all

But what we were left with was

As our Manaeba sinks into the ocean

Our pacific ways of consensus dissolve into ocean foam

Our thatched rooves are blown away by the sea winds

A phoenix rises from the ashes of our nationhood

Scattered into the vast Pacific

Gaslit by gatekeepers

Girlbossed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University

As Tang Yingzeng plays the PIPA

Ambushed from Ten Sides and 9 dashes