{"id":44180,"date":"2022-05-05T08:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/new-zealand-foreign-minister-blames-relationship-failure-for-china-solomons-security-deal"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:34:41","slug":"new-zealand-foreign-minister-blames-relationship-failure-for-china-solomons-security-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44180","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand foreign minister blames \u2018relationship failure\u2019 for China-Solomons security deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nanaia Mahuta confirms \u2018unwelcome and unnecessary\u2019 deal came as a surprise to New Zealand and Australia, saying the Solomons must provide transparency<\/p>\n<p>The shock over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/the-deal-that-shocked-the-world-inside-the-china-solomons-security-pact\">China\u2019s security deal with Solomon Islands<\/a> is evidence of \u201ca relationship failure\u201d , New Zealand\u2019s foreign affairs minister has said, confirming that the pact took New Zealand, Australia and other Pacific nations completely by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The deal marks Beijing\u2019s first known bilateral security agreement in the Pacific. The text of the final deal is secret, but a draft leaked on social media in March granted Chinese military and police significant access to the country, allowing China to \u201cmake ship visits to, carry out logistical replenishment in, and have stopover and transition in Solomon Islands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/05\/new-zealand-foreign-minister-blames-relationship-failure-for-china-solomons-security-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanaia Mahuta confirms \u2018unwelcome and unnecessary\u2019 deal came as a surprise to New Zealand and Australia, saying the Solomons must provide transparencyThe shock over China\u2019s security deal with Solomon Islands is evidence of \u201ca relationship failure\u201d , Ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,43,645,50,56,874,63,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-south-pacific","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\/44180","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44181,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44180\/revisions\/44181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}