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The Guardian: Japanese mining giant threatened aid cut in bid to win Solomon Islands deal A mining giant financed by the Japanese government threatened to have foreign aid withdrawn from the Solomon Islands in a campaign to win rights to a lucrative nickel deposit. Sumitomo’s attempts to manipulate Solomon Islands officials included asking the present Japanese ambassador to threaten the prime minister with funding cuts to a hospital in his home town. Revelations from the longest-running trial in Solomon Islands history give a rare insight into the tactics a powerful transnational corporation can use to put pressure on a developing country. theguardian/world/2014/dec/03/japanese-miner-threatened-aid-cut-in-bid-to-win-solomon-islands-nickel-deal