{"id":22425,"date":"2020-09-04T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/pacific-nation-of-palau-invites-us-to-build-a-military-base-to-counter-china"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T04:53:58","slug":"pacific-nation-of-palau-invites-us-to-build-a-military-base-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22425","title":{"rendered":"Pacific nation of Palau invites US to build a military base to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows a visit by US defense secretary Mark Esper, who accused Beijing of \u2018malign influence\u2019 across the region<\/p>\n<p>The western Pacific nation of Palau has urged the United States military to build bases on its territory \u2013 in the heart of a region where Washington is pushing back against growing Chinese influence.<\/p>\n<p>US defense secretary Mark Esper visited the island nation last week as part of a Pacific tour, accusing Beijing of a \u201cmalign influence\u201d and \u201congoing destabilising activities\u201d across the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/04\/pacific-nation-of-palau-invites-us-to-build-a-military-base-to-counter-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move follows a visit by US defense secretary Mark Esper, who accused Beijing of \u2018malign influence\u2019 across the regionThe western Pacific nation of Palau has urged the United States military to build bases on its territory \u2013 in the heart of a region wher&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1546,"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":[41,50,874,1439,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-us-news","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\/22425","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\/1546"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}