{"id":32712,"date":"2021-06-02T12:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/antony-blinken-warns-pacific-leaders-about-coercion-in-veiled-swipe-at-china"},"modified":"2021-06-02T12:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T03:10:14","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-warns-pacific-leaders-about-coercion-in-veiled-swipe-at-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32712","title":{"rendered":"US secretary of state warns Pacific leaders about \u2018coercion\u2019 in veiled swipe at China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken takes a shot at Beijing\u2019s growing influence with rallying call for \u2018international rules-based order\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state has warned leaders of Pacific countries about \u201cthreats to the rules-based international order\u201d and \u201ceconomic coercion\u201d, in what appears to be a veiled swipe at China\u2019s growing influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Antony Blinken was addressing leaders and their delegates from 11 Pacific countries and territories including Fiji, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, French Polynesia, Palau and Marshall Islands as part of the Pacific Islands Conference of Leaders, which is held in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/02\/antony-blinken-warns-pacific-leaders-about-coercion-in-veiled-swipe-at-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Blinken takes a shot at Beijing\u2019s growing influence with rallying call for \u2018international rules-based order\u2019The US secretary of state has warned leaders of Pacific countries about \u201cthreats to the rules-based international order\u201d and \u201ceconomic co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[50,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions\/32713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}