{"id":42997,"date":"2022-03-29T11:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/solomon-islands-prime-minister-says-foreign-criticism-of-china-security-deal-very-insulting"},"modified":"2022-03-29T11:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:18:45","slug":"solomon-islands-prime-minister-says-foreign-criticism-of-china-security-deal-very-insulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42997","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands prime minister says foreign criticism of China security deal \u2018very insulting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare says it is \u2018utter nonsense\u2019 that China\u2019s presence is a threat to regional stability<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare<strong> <\/strong>has dismissed foreign criticism of the country\u2019s security negotiations with China as \u201cinsulting\u201d and called those who leaked the draft agreement \u201clunatics\u201d, in his first comments to parliament on the proposed treaty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find it very insulting, Mr Speaker, to be branded as unfit to manage our sovereign affairs,\u201d Sogavare said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/solomon-islands-prime-minister-says-foreign-criticism-of-china-security-deal-very-insulting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare says it is \u2018utter nonsense\u2019 that China\u2019s presence is a threat to regional stabilitySolomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has dismissed foreign criticism of the country\u2019s security negotiations with China as \u201cinsulting\u201d and c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2990,"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":[41,43,50,56,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-new-zealand","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\/42997","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\/2990"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42998,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42997\/revisions\/42998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}