{"id":43118,"date":"2022-04-01T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/power-shifts-new-zealand-reconsiders-pacific-role-as-chinas-influence-grows"},"modified":"2022-04-01T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:55:10","slug":"power-shifts-new-zealand-reconsiders-pacific-role-as-chinas-influence-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43118","title":{"rendered":"Power shifts: New Zealand reconsiders Pacific role as China\u2019s influence grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific receives 60% of New Zealand\u2019s foreign aid but experts say Wellington\u2019s engagement in the region has declined in recent years<\/p>\n<p>In a ceremony in Fiji on Tuesday, New Zealand\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Nanaia Mahuta, unveiled a 14-foot carving, which she called a symbol of \u201cPacific regionalism\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>It was a small but symbolic moment during the first day of a historic trip \u2013 Mahuta\u2019s first official visit to the Pacific, which has included the signing of an agreement promising a \u201cshared commitment and vision for regional solidarity\u201d with Fiji.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/power-shifts-new-zealand-reconsiders-pacific-role-as-chinas-influence-grows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific receives 60% of New Zealand\u2019s foreign aid but experts say Wellington\u2019s engagement in the region has declined in recent yearsIn a ceremony in Fiji on Tuesday, New Zealand\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Nanaia Mahuta, unveiled a 14-foot carving,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43118","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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118","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\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43118\/revisions\/43119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}