{"id":43494,"date":"2022-04-12T17:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/china-requested-heavily-armed-security-team-be-sent-to-solomon-islands-leaked-documents-reveal"},"modified":"2022-04-12T17:40:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:40:11","slug":"china-requested-heavily-armed-security-team-be-sent-to-solomon-islands-leaked-documents-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43494","title":{"rendered":"China requested heavily armed security team be sent to Solomon Islands, leaked documents reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 10-person detail was to be armed with pistols, rifles, two machine guns and a sniper rifle to protect Chinese embassy<\/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<\/ul>\n<p>China requested that a plainclothes 10-person security detail armed with pistols, rifles, two machine guns and a sniper rifle be dispatched to Solomon Islands late last year, leaked documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian has received a copy of the documents, dated 3 December 2021, in which China requested security personnel be allowed to enter the country to secure the Chinese embassy in Honiara, in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/parliament-building-and-police-station-burned-down-during-protests-in-solomon-islands\">riots there in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/12\/china-requested-heavily-armed-security-team-be-sent-to-solomon-islands-leaked-documents-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 10-person detail was to be armed with pistols, rifles, two machine guns and a sniper rifle to protect Chinese embassyGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingChina requested that a plainclothes 10-person security detail armed with pisto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,50,319,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43495,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43494\/revisions\/43495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}