{"id":43067,"date":"2022-03-31T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/pacific-leader-urges-solomon-islands-to-rethink-china-security-deal"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:37:33","slug":"pacific-leader-urges-solomon-islands-to-rethink-china-security-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43067","title":{"rendered":"Pacific leader urges Solomon Islands to rethink China security deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Federated States of Micronesia says he fears Pacific islands \u2018would be at the epicentre of a future confrontation\u2019 between China and the US<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Federated States of Micronesia has sent an impassioned plea to the Solomon Islands\u2019 prime minister, urging him to reconsider a controversial and \u201cunprecedented\u201d security pact with China.<\/p>\n<p>President David Panuelo voiced \u201cgrave security concerns about this proposed agreement\u201d in a 30 March letter released by his government on Thursday, citing rising tensions between China and the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/pacific-leader-urges-solomon-islands-to-rethink-china-security-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Federated States of Micronesia says he fears Pacific islands \u2018would be at the epicentre of a future confrontation\u2019 between China and the USThe president of the Federated States of Micronesia has sent an impassioned plea to the Solomon &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-pacific-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\/43067","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43068,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}