{"id":42821,"date":"2022-03-24T19:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/china-finalising-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-to-base-warships-in-the-pacific"},"modified":"2022-03-25T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:11:43","slug":"china-finalising-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-to-base-warships-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42821","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Really concerning\u2019: China finalising security deal with Solomon Islands to base warships in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Draft agreement circulating on social media suggests China could establish military base less than 2,000km from Australia <\/p>\n<p>Australian officials are alarmed at Solomon Islands\u2019 planned security deal with China with the defence minister, Peter Dutton, stating \u201cwe would be concerned clearly about any military base being established\u201d less than 2,000km off the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands has signed a policing deal with China and will send a proposal for a broader security agreement covering the military to its cabinet for consideration. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/24\/china-finalising-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-to-base-warships-in-the-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Draft agreement circulating on social media suggests China could establish military base less than 2,000km from Australia Australian officials are alarmed at Solomon Islands\u2019 planned security deal with China with the defence minister, Peter Dutton, sta&#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":[41,43,324,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821","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=42821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42821\/revisions\/42842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}