{"id":44040,"date":"2022-04-30T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/30\/the-china-solomons-security-deal-has-been-signed-time-to-move-on-from-megaphone-diplomacy"},"modified":"2022-04-30T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:00:35","slug":"the-china-solomons-security-deal-has-been-signed-time-to-move-on-from-megaphone-diplomacy-meg-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44040","title":{"rendered":"The China-Solomons security deal has been signed, time to move on from megaphone diplomacy | Meg Keen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon Islands has greater security threats in its future that Australia could be focused on<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Solomons-China security agreement is signed, there\u2019s little value in indulging in a retrospective blame game. Instead, we would benefit from a sharpened focus on the security issues ahead and how collectively to address them.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to the Solomons-China security deal there are several key issues that need our attention. First, the secrecy of the deal reflects a pattern, not an unforeseen surprise. Previous \u201csecurity surprises\u201d include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/11\/baseless-rumours-why-talk-of-a-chinese-military-installation-in-vanuatu-misses-the-point\">Santo in Vanuatu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.org.au\/the-tulagi-turning-point\/\">Tulagi in Solomon Islands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/oceania\/china-plans-to-revive-strategic-kiribati-airstrip-mp-20210505-p57p8o.html\">Kanton in Kiribati<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/30\/the-china-solomons-security-deal-has-been-signed-time-to-move-on-from-megaphone-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon Islands has greater security threats in its future that Australia could be focused onNow that the Solomons-China security agreement is signed, there\u2019s little value in indulging in a retrospective blame game. Instead, we would benefit from a sha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3043,"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":[41,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/44040","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\/3043"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44040\/revisions\/44041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}