{"id":43996,"date":"2022-04-28T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/australias-foreign-minister-denounces-chinas-secret-security-deal-with-solomon-islands"},"modified":"2022-04-28T14:57:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:57:42","slug":"australias-foreign-minister-denounces-chinas-secret-security-deal-with-solomon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43996","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s foreign minister denounces China\u2019s \u2018secret\u2019 security deal with Solomon Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marise Payne says other members of the \u2018Pacific family\u2019 share concerns but she rejects claims her government \u2018dropped the ball\u2019 in the region<\/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<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-election-2022\">Guardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marise Payne has denounced the \u201csecret\u201d terms of China\u2019s security deal with Solomon Islands, while insisting \u201cno document signed and kept away from public view\u201d would change Australia\u2019s commitment to answering Pacific countries\u2019 needs.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign affairs minister said the agreement was \u201cnot transparent\u201d \u2013 unlike Australia\u2019s existing security treaty with Solomon Islands \u2013 and was also being hidden from other Pacific countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/28\/australias-foreign-minister-denounces-chinas-secret-security-deal-with-solomon-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marise Payne says other members of the \u2018Pacific family\u2019 share concerns but she rejects claims her government \u2018dropped the ball\u2019 in the regionGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingGuardian Australia\u2019s full federal election coverageFollow &#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":[41,43,2625,645,324,322,50,534,735,571,325,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-election-2022","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-australian-security-and-counter-terrorism","category-china","category-coalition","category-labor-party","category-liberal-party","category-marise-payne","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\/43996","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=43996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions\/43997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}