{"id":44771,"date":"2022-05-24T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-visit-solomon-islands-amid-push-for-more-deals-with-pacific-countries"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T03:26:32","slug":"chinas-foreign-minister-to-visit-solomon-islands-amid-push-for-more-deals-with-pacific-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44771","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s foreign minister to visit Solomon Islands amid push for more deals with Pacific countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tour, which includes Fiji and Papua New Guinea, comes amidst \u2018uptick of tempo\u2019 in China\u2019s engagement in the Pacific<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign minister will visit Solomon Islands this week, one month after signing a security agreement with the Pacific country, on a broader tour where China is seeking more deals in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Yi would visit Honiara with a \u201cnearly 20-member delegation\u201d, the Solomons\u2019 government confirmed on Tuesday, calling the trip a \u201cmilestone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-visit-solomon-islands-amid-push-for-more-deals-with-pacific-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour, which includes Fiji and Papua New Guinea, comes amidst \u2018uptick of tempo\u2019 in China\u2019s engagement in the PacificChina\u2019s foreign minister will visit Solomon Islands this week, one month after signing a security agreement with the Pacific country, on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3086,"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":[41,50,591,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","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\/44771","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\/3086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44772,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions\/44772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}