{"id":44019,"date":"2022-04-29T14:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/solomon-islands-pm-suggests-australias-reaction-to-china-security-deal-is-hysterical-and-hypocritical"},"modified":"2022-04-29T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:22:21","slug":"solomon-islands-pm-suggests-australias-reaction-to-china-security-deal-is-hysterical-and-hypocritical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44019","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands PM suggests Australia\u2019s reaction to China security deal is hysterical and hypocritical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare says he wasn\u2019t told about Aukus pact until it was public while Scott Morrison accuses counterpart of parroting China\u2019s lines<\/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>The prime minister of Solomon Islands has accused the Australian government of hypocrisy over his country\u2019s security deal with China, saying the Aukus pact was far from transparent but he \u201cdid not become theatrical and hysterical\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Manasseh Sogavare said Solomon Islands and other countries in the region \u201cshould have been consulted to ensure that this Aukus treaty is transparent since it will affect the Pacific family by allowing nuclear submarines in Pacific waters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/29\/solomon-islands-pm-suggests-australias-reaction-to-china-security-deal-is-hysterical-and-hypocritical\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare says he wasn\u2019t told about Aukus pact until it was public while Scott Morrison accuses counterpart of parroting China\u2019s linesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe prime minister of Solomon Islands has accused the Aus&#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":[41,43,324,50,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-pacific-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44019","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=44019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44020,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44019\/revisions\/44020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}