{"id":39259,"date":"2021-11-26T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/solomon-islands-leader-blames-violent-anti-government-protests-on-foreign-interference"},"modified":"2021-11-26T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:24:11","slug":"solomon-islands-pm-blames-violent-anti-government-protests-on-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39259","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands PM blames violent anti-government protests on foreign interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as Australian police and defence force personnel begin taking control of capital Honiara<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has blamed foreign interference over his government\u2019s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti-government protests, arson and looting that have ravaged the capital Honiara for the past three days.<\/p>\n<p>However, critics have also blamed the unrest on complaints of a lack of government services and accountability, corruption and foreign workers taking local jobs. In 2019, Sogavare also angered many, particularly leaders of Solomon Islands\u2019 most populous province, Malaita, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/16\/china-extends-influence-in-pacific-as-solomon-islands-break-with-taiwan\">cut the country\u2019s diplomatic ties with Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/26\/solomon-islands-leader-blames-violent-anti-government-protests-on-foreign-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as Australian police and defence force personnel begin taking control of capital HoniaraSolomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has blamed foreign interference over his government\u2019s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Bei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,43,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-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\/39259","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39268,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39259\/revisions\/39268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}