{"id":21574,"date":"2020-08-11T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/pacific-states-face-instability-hunger-and-slow-road-to-covid-recovery-dame-meg-taylor"},"modified":"2020-08-11T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T22:00:18","slug":"pacific-states-face-instability-hunger-and-slow-road-to-covid-recovery-dame-meg-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21574","title":{"rendered":"Pacific states face instability, hunger and slow road to Covid recovery: Dame Meg Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic has so far spared the Pacific, its economies are in free-fall, the region\u2019s chief diplomat warns<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the health and economic crises of Covid-19, the global pandemic has the potential to cause political instability and undermine state security across the Pacific, the region\u2019s chief diplomat has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Meg Taylor, secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum, said the region\u2019s economies were struggling with the virus-induced shocks, and a prolonged crisis could worsen existing problems of hunger, poor healthcare, and state fragility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/11\/pacific-states-face-instability-hunger-and-slow-road-to-covid-recovery-dame-meg-taylor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic has so far spared the Pacific, its economies are in free-fall, the region\u2019s chief diplomat warnsBeyond the health and economic crises of Covid-19, the global pandemic has the potential to cause political instabi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"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":[41,855,1069,436,874,581,282,280,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-south-pacific","category-tonga","category-vanuatu","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\/21574","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\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21575,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21574\/revisions\/21575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}