{"id":43908,"date":"2022-04-26T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/temper-tantrums-and-invasion-threats-over-solomon-islands-deal-with-china-will-push-pacific-allies-away"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T02:04:38","slug":"temper-tantrums-and-invasion-threats-over-solomon-islands-deal-with-china-will-push-pacific-allies-away-terence-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43908","title":{"rendered":"Temper tantrums and invasion threats over Solomon Islands deal with China will push Pacific allies away | Terence Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behaving like the security deal is a catastrophe lessens our standing in a region sick of being seen as a geo-strategic chessboard<\/p>\n<p>A spectre is haunting the Pacific. It is focused on Solomon Islands today, but has eyes everywhere and might pounce anywhere next.<\/p>\n<p>No, I\u2019m not talking about China. I am talking about us.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/26\/temper-tantrums-and-invasion-threats-over-solomon-islands-deal-with-china-will-push-pacific-allies-away\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behaving like the security deal is a catastrophe lessens our standing in a region sick of being seen as a geo-strategic chessboardA spectre is haunting the Pacific. It is focused on Solomon Islands today, but has eyes everywhere and might pounce anywhe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3038,"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":[41,43,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908","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\/3038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43908\/revisions\/43909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}