{"id":12382,"date":"2019-12-23T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/23\/the-lesson-from-my-trip-to-china-solomon-islands-is-not-ready-to-deal-with-this-giant"},"modified":"2019-12-23T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T17:00:21","slug":"the-lesson-from-my-trip-to-china-solomon-islands-is-not-ready-to-deal-with-this-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12382","title":{"rendered":"The lesson from my trip to China? Solomon Islands is not ready to deal with this giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my nation switched allegiance to China, it took journalists on a \u2018look and learn\u2019 tour<\/p>\n<p>The invitation from the prime minister\u2019s office came in mid-November, almost exactly two months after the event referred to as \u201cthe switch\u201d \u2013 the day the government of Solomon Islands, after more than 30 years of diplomatic allegiance to Taiwan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/08\/when-china-came-calling-inside-the-solomon-islands-switch\">unceremoniously switched recognition to China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] want to take SI [Solomon Islands] media on an \u2018Look and Learn\u2019 tour of China,\u201d the email said, \u201cyou\u2019re on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/dec\/23\/the-lesson-from-my-trip-to-china-solomon-islands-is-not-ready-to-deal-with-this-giant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my nation switched allegiance to China, it took journalists on a \u2018look and learn\u2019 tourThe invitation from the prime minister\u2019s office came in mid-November, almost exactly two months after the event referred to as \u201cthe switch\u201d \u2013 the day the govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"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-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","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\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12391,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions\/12391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}