{"id":43077,"date":"2022-03-31T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/31\/security-agreement-with-china-initialled-by-both-countries-solomon-islands-says"},"modified":"2022-03-31T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:04:00","slug":"security-agreement-with-china-initialled-by-both-countries-solomon-islands-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43077","title":{"rendered":"Security agreement with China \u2018initialled\u2019 by both countries, Solomon Islands says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific nation has batted away concerns from Australia, New Zealand and the US, saying its policy is \u2018friends to all and enemies to none\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian 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>Solomon Islands has announced it is pushing ahead with a security agreement with China hours after a senior Australian defence force officer said the deal may force Canberra to change the way it conducts air and sea operations in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The Solomon Islands government said officials from both countries had on Thursday \u201cinitialled\u201d elements of the proposed security agreement with China which would be signed at a later date.<\/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\/31\/security-agreement-with-china-initialled-by-both-countries-solomon-islands-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific nation has batted away concerns from Australia, New Zealand and the US, saying its policy is \u2018friends to all and enemies to none\u2019Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefingSolomon Islands has announced it is pushing ahead wit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[41,43,1585,324,50,319,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-foreign-policy","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\/43077","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43078,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions\/43078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}