{"id":44120,"date":"2022-05-03T11:32:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/pacific-nations-walk-geopolitical-tightrope-over-ukraine-war-as-nuclear-legacy-looms"},"modified":"2022-05-03T11:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T02:32:17","slug":"pacific-nations-walk-geopolitical-tightrope-over-ukraine-war-as-nuclear-legacy-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44120","title":{"rendered":"Pacific nations walk geopolitical tightrope over Ukraine war, as nuclear legacy looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpower<\/p>\n<p>Some Pacific island nations have been left walking a geopolitical tightrope in their response to the war in Ukraine, as they try to balance regional alliances with both the west and China and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Comments by Russian president Vladimir Putin, which many have interpreted as thinly veiled threats about the potential use of nuclear weapons have also touched a nerve in a region long affected by the catastrophic effects of nuclear weapons testing by the US, France and Britain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/03\/pacific-nations-walk-geopolitical-tightrope-over-ukraine-war-as-nuclear-legacy-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific leaders have broadly lambasted the Russian assault, but some countries have resisted outright condemnation of the superpowerSome Pacific island nations have been left walking a geopolitical tightrope in their response to the war in Ukraine, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2065,"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":[41,50,436,602,952,874,419,63,282,930,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","category-marshall-islands","category-micronesia","category-pacific-islands","category-russia","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","category-ukraine","category-vanuatu","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\/44120","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\/2065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}