{"id":43516,"date":"2022-04-13T18:30:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/us-military-leader-warns-chinese-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-sounds-too-good-to-be-true"},"modified":"2022-04-13T18:30:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T09:30:34","slug":"us-military-leader-warns-chinese-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-sounds-too-good-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43516","title":{"rendered":"US military leader warns Chinese security deal with Solomon Islands sounds \u2018too good to be true\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General David Berger raises concerns about Chinese influence while Australia\u2019s Pacific minister asks Solomon Islands \u2018to consider not signing agreement\u2019<\/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>A senior US military general has warned during a visit to Australia that China\u2019s offer to deepen security ties with Solomon Islands will come with strings attached, suggesting the Pacific island country may come to regret the planned deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents told me if a deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is,\u201d the commandant of the United States Marine Corps, general David Berger, said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/13\/us-military-leader-warns-chinese-security-deal-with-solomon-islands-sounds-too-good-to-be-true\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General David Berger raises concerns about Chinese influence while Australia\u2019s Pacific minister asks Solomon Islands \u2018to consider not signing agreement\u2019Get our free news app; get our morning email briefingA senior US military general has warned during &#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":[41,43,324,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","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\/43516","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=43516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43517,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43516\/revisions\/43517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}