{"id":42850,"date":"2022-03-25T09:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/secret-shipment-of-replica-guns-to-solomon-islands-police-by-china-triggers-concern"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:20:01","slug":"secret-shipment-of-replica-guns-to-solomon-islands-police-by-china-triggers-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42850","title":{"rendered":"Secret shipment of replica guns to Solomon Islands police by China triggers concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police had been criticised after reports that a \u2018shipment of arms\u2019 arrived in the country on a logging vessel from an unknown source<\/p>\n<p>A shipment of replica firearms by China to Solomon Islands police has caused concern as the Pacific nation grapples with security concerns sparked by its increasingly close relationship with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The police force had been criticised over the secrecy surrounding delivery of what a local media report called a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.solomonstarnews.com\/police-receives-report-on-guns-shipment\/\">large shipment of arms<\/a>\u201d that arrived in the country on a logging vessel earlier this month from an unknown source.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/secret-shipment-of-replica-guns-to-solomon-islands-police-by-china-triggers-concern\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police had been criticised after reports that a \u2018shipment of arms\u2019 arrived in the country on a logging vessel from an unknown sourceA shipment of replica firearms by China to Solomon Islands police has caused concern as the Pacific nation grapples with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2980,"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":[41,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/42850","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\/2980"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42851,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42850\/revisions\/42851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}