{"id":44848,"date":"2022-05-25T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/china-is-pursuing-a-pacific-wide-pact-with-10-island-nations-on-security-policing-and-data-report"},"modified":"2022-05-25T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T08:44:34","slug":"china-is-pursuing-a-pacific-wide-pact-with-10-island-nations-on-security-policing-and-data-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44848","title":{"rendered":"China is pursuing a Pacific-wide pact with 10 island nations on security, policing and data \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federated States of Micronesia wants deal rejected because it could spark new cold war between China and west while Australia admits \u2018we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/may\/25\/penny-wong-set-to-travel-to-fiji-on-thursday-coinciding-with-chinese-ministers-pacific-tour\">China\u2019s Pacific plan is \u2018clear\u2019 but so is Australia\u2019s intention to be partner of choice, Penny Wong says<\/a><\/li>\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>China will pursue a Pacific-wide deal with almost a dozen island nations covering policing, security and data communications cooperation when the foreign minister, Wang Yi, hosts a meeting in Fiji next week, documents show.<\/p>\n<p>A draft communique and five-year action plan sent by Beijing to 10 Pacific islands ahead of a foreign ministers meeting on 30 May has prompted pushback from at least one of the invited nations, which said it showed China\u2019s intent to control the region and \u201cthreatens regional stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/25\/china-is-pursuing-a-pacific-wide-pact-with-10-island-nations-on-security-policing-and-data-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federated States of Micronesia wants deal rejected because it could spark new cold war between China and west while Australia admits \u2018we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do\u2019China\u2019s Pacific plan is \u2018clear\u2019 but so is Australia\u2019s intention to be partner of choice,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,43,324,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","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\/44848","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44849,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44848\/revisions\/44849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}