{"id":3263,"date":"2019-07-15T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/15\/australia-must-prepare-for-a-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific"},"modified":"2019-07-15T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:08:31","slug":"australia-must-prepare-for-a-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific-hugh-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Australia must prepare for a Chinese military base in the Pacific | Hugh White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of keeping China out of the region is too great, we must build forces that could counter its operations instead<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be honest: Australians have never had much time for our South Pacific neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The island nations that lie to our north and north-east, stretching from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to Vanuatu, Fiji and beyond, may be close to us geographically, but we have not found them especially interesting, important or profitable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/15\/australia-must-prepare-for-a-chinese-military-base-in-the-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of keeping China out of the region is too great, we must build forces that could counter its operations insteadLet\u2019s be honest: Australians have never had much time for our South Pacific neighbours.The island nations that lie to our north and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"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":[41,43,324,322,50,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-china","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/3263","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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}