{"id":43738,"date":"2022-04-21T20:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/australia-rejects-claim-its-security-forces-in-solomon-islands-were-told-not-to-protect-chinese-built-buildings"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:03:29","slug":"australia-rejects-claim-its-security-forces-in-solomon-islands-were-told-not-to-protect-chinese-built-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43738","title":{"rendered":"Australia rejects claim its security forces in Solomon Islands were told not to protect Chinese-built buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM alleged Australian personnel twice failed to prevent the burning of Honiara\u2019s Chinatown<\/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>Australia has refuted claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/25\/honiaras-chinatown-targeted-as-violent-protests-break-out-for-second-day-in-solomon-islands\">Australian security forces deployed to Solomon Islands\u2019 capital<\/a> Honiara to quell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/24\/parliament-building-and-police-station-burned-down-during-protests-in-solomon-islands\">last November\u2019s riots<\/a> were instructed not to protect Chinese-built infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The claim was made by former Solomon Islands prime minister, Danny Philip, who is now the chair of the current government\u2019s, foreign policy advisory subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/australia-rejects-claim-its-security-forces-in-solomon-islands-were-told-not-to-protect-chinese-built-buildings\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM alleged Australian personnel twice failed to prevent the burning of Honiara\u2019s ChinatownGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingAustralia has refuted claims that Australian security forces deployed to Solomon Islands\u2019 capital Honi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"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":[41,43,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","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\/43738","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43762,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43738\/revisions\/43762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}