{"id":44009,"date":"2022-04-29T11:29:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/climate-crisis-not-china-is-biggest-threat-to-pacific-say-former-leaders"},"modified":"2022-04-29T11:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T02:29:15","slug":"climate-crisis-not-china-is-biggest-threat-to-pacific-say-former-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44009","title":{"rendered":"Climate crisis \u2013 not China \u2013 is biggest threat to Pacific, say former leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Elders Voice group says military tension \u2018created by China and the US and its allies\u2019 are secondary to rising seas and catastrophic cyclones<\/p>\n<p>Growing military tensions in the Pacific between China, the US and Australia do not address the most significant security threat to the region \u2013 climate change \u2013 former leaders of Pacific nations have warned.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the Pacific Elders Voice group, which includes former leaders of the Marshall Islands, Palau, Kiribati and Tuvalu, as well as Dame Meg Taylor, the former secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum secretariat, said that \u201cthe primary security threat to the Pacific is climate change\u201d, rather than geo-strategic tensions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/climate-crisis-not-china-is-biggest-threat-to-pacific-say-former-leaders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Elders Voice group says military tension \u2018created by China and the US and its allies\u2019 are secondary to rising seas and catastrophic cyclonesGrowing military tensions in the Pacific between China, the US and Australia do not address the most sig&#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":[41,50,2331,65,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","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\/44009","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=44009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44010,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44009\/revisions\/44010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}