{"id":42868,"date":"2022-03-25T15:15:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/chinese-draft-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-didnt-blindside-australia-morrison-says"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T06:15:46","slug":"chinese-draft-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-didnt-blindside-australia-morrison-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42868","title":{"rendered":"Chinese draft security deal with Solomon Islands didn\u2019t blindside Australia, Morrison says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say unratified document which would allow China to base ships in the Pacific is a \u2018wish list\u2019 which reveals nation\u2019s intent in \u2018black and white\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott Morrison says Australia was not blindsided by a draft security deal between China and Solomon Islands, which experts warn has demonstrated a \u201cblack and white\u201d intent at expanding influence in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The draft would allow China to base navy warships in the Pacific less than 2,000km off the Australian coast, but some experts, including the Lowy Institute\u2019s Jonathan Pryke, caution it reads more like a \u201cwishlist\u201d from China than a finalised agreement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/25\/chinese-draft-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-didnt-blindside-australia-morrison-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say unratified document which would allow China to base ships in the Pacific is a \u2018wish list\u2019 which reveals nation\u2019s intent in \u2018black and white\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingScott Morrison says Australia was not blindsid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"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":[41,645,324,322,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","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\/42868","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\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42869,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42868\/revisions\/42869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}