{"id":43689,"date":"2022-04-20T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/20\/foreign-policy-blunder-pm-defends-solomons-island-stance-as-labor-goes-on-the-attack-video"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T03:43:04","slug":"foreign-policy-blunder-pm-defends-solomons-island-stance-as-labor-goes-on-the-attack-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43689","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Foreign policy blunder&#8217;: PM defends Solomons Island stance as Labor goes on the attack \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor&#8217;s Penny Wong has called a newly signed security agreement between China and Solomon Islands, &#8216;the worst&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-foreign-policy\">Australian foreign policy<\/a>&nbsp;blunder in the Pacific since the end of world war two&#8217;. Prime minister Scott Morrison defended the move, saying he thinks of the Pacific &#8216;as siblings&#8217; not as children. &#8216;You don\u2019t go around stomping around telling leaders in Pacific Islands what they should and shouldn\u2019t do&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gdnaustraliasubs\">Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/apr\/19\/china-and-solomon-islands-sign-security-deal-chinese-foreign-ministry-says\">Solomon Islands-China pact is worst policy failure in Pacific since 1945, Labor says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow the Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-election-2022\">See all our 2022 Australian election coverage here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/20\/foreign-policy-blunder-pm-defends-solomons-island-stance-as-labor-goes-on-the-attack-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor&#8217;s Penny Wong has called a newly signed security agreement between China and Solomon Islands, &#8216;the worst&nbsp;Australian foreign policy&nbsp;blunder in the Pacific since the end of world war two&#8217;. Prime minister Scott Morrison defended the move, s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[961,43,2625,324,50,386,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-election-2022","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-scott-morrison","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\/43689","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43689\/revisions\/43690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}