{"id":10467,"date":"2019-10-26T06:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/25\/solomons-government-vetoes-chinese-attempt-to-lease-an-island"},"modified":"2019-10-26T06:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:55:58","slug":"solomons-government-vetoes-chinese-attempt-to-lease-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10467","title":{"rendered":"Solomons&#8217; government vetoes Chinese attempt to lease an island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement for Tulagi, a former Japanese naval base with a deep-water harbour, \u2018unlawful\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>A Chinese company\u2019s attempt to lease an entire island in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/solomonislands\">Solomon Islands<\/a> was unlawful and will not be allowed to go ahead, the Pacific archipelago\u2019s government has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The deal between the Solomons\u2019 Central Province and the state-owned China Sam Group was \u201cunlawful, unenforceable and must be terminated with immediate effect\u201d, prime minister Manasseh Sogavare\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/25\/solomons-government-vetoes-chinese-attempt-to-lease-an-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreement for Tulagi, a former Japanese naval base with a deep-water harbour, \u2018unlawful\u2019 A Chinese company\u2019s attempt to lease an entire island in the Solomon Islands was unlawful and will not be allowed to go ahead, the Pacific archipelago\u2019s government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions\/10468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}