{"id":43146,"date":"2022-04-01T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/solomon-islands-says-security-pact-will-not-allow-china-to-build-military-base"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:06:40","slug":"solomon-islands-says-security-pact-will-not-allow-china-to-build-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43146","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands says security pact will not allow China to build military base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Micronesia joins Australia, New Zealand and US in expressing concerns over alliance as the two nations move toward signing agreement<\/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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Solomon Islands has said it won\u2019t allow China to build a military base as it seeks to counter international fears over its new security alliance with China.<\/p>\n<p>But that insistence will do little to ease concerns about the pact from the nation\u2019s traditional partners that include New Zealand, Australia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/01\/solomon-islands-says-security-pact-will-not-allow-china-to-build-military-base\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Micronesia joins Australia, New Zealand and US in expressing concerns over alliance as the two nations move toward signing agreementGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesSolomon I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,43,50,952,56,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-micronesia","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43147,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions\/43147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}