{"id":32627,"date":"2021-05-31T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/the-3bn-bargain-how-china-dominates-pacific-mining-logging-and-fishing"},"modified":"2021-05-31T05:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T20:00:03","slug":"the-3bn-bargain-how-china-dominates-pacific-mining-logging-and-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32627","title":{"rendered":"The $3bn bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China received more than half of all seafood, wood, and minerals exported from the region in 2019. Experts warn this is creating \u2018enormous challenges for sustainable development\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read more of our Pacific Plunder series here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One country dominates the Pacific\u2019s resources extraction.<\/p>\n<p>Guardian analysis of trade data has revealed that China received more than half the total tonnes of seafood, wood and minerals exported from the region in 2019, a haul worth $3.3bn that has been described by experts as \u201cstaggering in magnitude\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/31\/the-3bn-bargain-how-china-dominates-pacific-mining-logging-and-fishing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China received more than half of all seafood, wood, and minerals exported from the region in 2019. Experts warn this is creating \u2018enormous challenges for sustainable development\u2019Read more of our Pacific Plunder series hereOne country dominates the Paci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2220,"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":[41,43,6,50,456,65,1019,793,468,730,874,267,63,282,485,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-business","category-china","category-conservation","category-environment","category-fishing","category-logging-and-land-clearing","category-marine-life","category-mining","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","category-trees-and-forests","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\/32627","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\/2220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32637,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32627\/revisions\/32637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}