{"id":22330,"date":"2020-09-02T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/solomon-islands-province-announces-independence-vote-amid-china-tensions"},"modified":"2020-09-02T14:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T05:43:05","slug":"solomon-islands-province-announces-independence-vote-amid-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22330","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands province announces independence vote amid China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaita\u2019s promised poll pits pro-Taiwan province against a pro-Beijing national government<\/p>\n<p>The largest province in Solomon Islands has announced plans for an independence referendum as tensions with the country\u2019s national government over China policy rise.<\/p>\n<p>Malaita, a province of 200,000 people in the country\u2019s east, \u201cwill soon conduct a provincial-wide referendum on the topic of independence\u201d, a statement from premier Daniel Suidani said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/solomon-islands-province-announces-independence-vote-amid-china-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaita\u2019s promised poll pits pro-Taiwan province against a pro-Beijing national governmentThe largest province in Solomon Islands has announced plans for an independence referendum as tensions with the country\u2019s national government over China policy ri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1541,"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":[41,50,874,63,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","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\/22330","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\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22331,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22330\/revisions\/22331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}