{"id":28465,"date":"2021-02-15T01:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/15\/australia-overreacting-to-chinese-development-plans-on-northern-border"},"modified":"2021-02-15T01:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T16:30:47","slug":"australia-overreacting-to-chinese-development-plans-on-northern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28465","title":{"rendered":"Australia &#8216;overreacting&#8217; to Chinese development plans on northern border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese-backed plans for fishing plant and city on Papua New Guinea island in Torres Strait designed to \u2018ruffle feathers\u2019 in Australia, expert says<\/p>\n<p>Australia has dramatically overreacted to speculative announcements of possible Chinese-funded development on the Papua New Guinea island of Daru, just north of Australia\u2019s border in the Torres Strait, a former adviser to the PNG government has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Chinese just wanted to ruffle a few feathers on the Australian side,\u201d Martyn Awayang Namoron said of the leaked letter describing plans to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/png-says-it-has-not-seen-proposal-for-chinese-built-city-on-island-50km-from-australian-territory\">$39bn city on Daru<\/a>, and last November\u2019s memorandum of understanding signing to establish a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mofcom.gov.cn\/article\/i\/jyjl\/l\/202011\/20201103015468.shtml?fbclid=IwAR0rdzaL-MgYbSvWcMw7578vEmLUdH489E-jWcDRSUT0qEtwPqm9zjBdPyk\">\u201ccomprehensive multifunctional fishery industrial park\u201d<\/a> on the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/15\/australia-overreacting-to-chinese-development-plans-on-northern-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese-backed plans for fishing plant and city on Papua New Guinea island in Torres Strait designed to \u2018ruffle feathers\u2019 in Australia, expert saysAustralia has dramatically overreacted to speculative announcements of possible Chinese-funded developmen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1926,"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":[41,43,645,50,1019,874,267,1910,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-fishing","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-torres-strait-islands","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\/28465","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\/1926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28475,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28465\/revisions\/28475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}