{"id":40529,"date":"2022-01-11T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/11\/pacific-faces-strategic-surprise-says-us-official-alluding-to-china"},"modified":"2022-01-11T11:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:51:03","slug":"pacific-faces-strategic-surprise-says-us-official-alluding-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40529","title":{"rendered":"Pacific faces \u2018strategic surprise\u2019, says US official, alluding to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell says bases and other agreements could be on the cards<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific may be the part of the world most likely to see \u201cstrategic surprise\u201d, the US Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell has said, in comments apparently referring to possible Chinese ambitions to establish Pacific island bases.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell told Washington\u2019s Center for Strategic and International Studies that the United States has \u201cenormous moral, strategic, historical interests\u201d in the Pacific but had not done enough to assist the region, unlike countries such as Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/11\/pacific-faces-strategic-surprise-says-us-official-alluding-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell says bases and other agreements could be on the cardsThe Pacific may be the part of the world most likely to see \u201cstrategic surprise\u201d, the US Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell has said, in comments apparen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,591,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/40529","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions\/40530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}