{"id":28843,"date":"2021-02-24T04:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/kiribati-and-china-to-develop-former-climate-refuge-land-in-fiji"},"modified":"2021-02-24T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T19:00:36","slug":"kiribati-and-china-to-develop-former-climate-refuge-land-in-fiji-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28843","title":{"rendered":"Kiribati and China to develop former climate-refuge land in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of Kiribati says China will provide \u2018technical assistance\u2019 to convert land in Fiji into a working farm to \u2018supply produce to Kiribati\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A block of land the government of Kiribati bought in Fiji half a decade ago \u2013 ostensibly to serve as a refuge when their country disappeared under a rising ocean \u2013 will be transformed into a commercial farm to help feed the i-Kiribati people, with \u201ctechnical assistance\u201d from China.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Kiribati, Taneti Maamau, announced last week that China would help fulfil his administration\u2019s plan to resume farming on a 22 km sq parcel of land in Fiji, sparking widespread speculation the land would be gifted or sold to China. Maamau has ruled out any military application \u2013 \u201cany land or sea base\u201d \u2013 for the land.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/24\/kiribati-and-china-to-develop-former-climate-refuge-land-in-fiji\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Kiribati says China will provide \u2018technical assistance\u2019 to convert land in Fiji into a working farm to \u2018supply produce to Kiribati\u2019A block of land the government of Kiribati bought in Fiji half a decade ago \u2013 ostensibly to serve as a refug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1240,"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":[41,50,326,436,591,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-fiji","category-kiribati","category-pacific-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\/28843","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\/1240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28844,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28843\/revisions\/28844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}