{"id":43699,"date":"2022-04-20T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/solomon-islands-security-pact-with-china-raises-the-question-is-australia-the-partner-for-the-pacific-it-thinks-it-is"},"modified":"2022-04-20T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:42:59","slug":"solomon-islands-security-pact-with-china-raises-the-question-is-australia-the-partner-for-the-pacific-it-thinks-it-is-kate-lyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43699","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands\u2019 security pact with China raises the question \u2013 is Australia the partner for the Pacific it thinks it is? | Kate Lyons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may not be a direct link between climate policy and the agreement, but it has contributed to the dimming of Australia\u2019s reputation in region<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government woke up Wednesday morning to a Solomon Islands-shaped headache.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night, news broke that the Pacific nation, less than 2,000km from Australia\u2019s east coast, had signed a security deal with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/solomon-islands-security-pact-with-china-raises-the-question-is-australia-the-partner-for-the-pacific-it-thinks-it-is\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may not be a direct link between climate policy and the agreement, but it has contributed to the dimming of Australia\u2019s reputation in regionThe Australian government woke up Wednesday morning to a Solomon Islands-shaped headache.Tuesday night, ne&#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":[43,324,50,2331,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-climate-crisis","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\/43699","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=43699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43700,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43699\/revisions\/43700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}