{"id":27657,"date":"2021-02-02T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/zoomed-to-fail-cracks-appear-in-pacific-islands-forum-as-covid-pulls-nations-apart"},"modified":"2021-02-02T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T19:00:15","slug":"zoomed-to-fail-cracks-appear-in-pacific-islands-forum-as-covid-pulls-nations-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27657","title":{"rendered":"Zoomed to fail? Cracks appear in Pacific Islands Forum as Covid pulls nations apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the forum\u2019s leadership and purpose<\/p>\n<p>In the Pacific, it is all about the <em>talanoa<\/em>: the conversation and the consensus.<\/p>\n<p>For the 50 years of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forumsec.org\/\">Pacific Islands Forum<\/a> (beginning life as the South Pacific Forum), meetings have always happened in person, and it is the power of the leaders being together that has given the forum its rare ability to find common ground.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/02\/zoomed-to-fail-cracks-appear-in-pacific-islands-forum-as-covid-pulls-nations-apart\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific diplomacy hinges on in-person discussion but web-only meetings have fed a growing dispute over the forum\u2019s leadership and purposeIn the Pacific, it is all about the talanoa: the conversation and the consensus.For the 50 years of the Pacific Isl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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":[41,326,436,602,874,581,1439,63,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-change","category-fiji","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-palau","category-solomon-islands","category-tonga","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\/27657","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27658,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27657\/revisions\/27658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}