{"id":44864,"date":"2022-05-26T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/jacinda-ardern-says-new-zealand-ready-to-respond-to-pacifics-security-needs-as-china-seeks-deal-in-region"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T23:40:26","slug":"jacinda-ardern-says-new-zealand-ready-to-respond-to-pacifics-security-needs-as-china-seeks-deal-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44864","title":{"rendered":"Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand \u2018ready to respond\u2019 to Pacific\u2019s security needs as China seeks deal in region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says \u2018the Pacific is our home\u2019 as Beijing plans a regional security pact with almost a dozen island nations<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand is \u201cready to respond\u201d to security needs in the Pacific, after it emerged <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\">China is planning a Pacific-wide security deal <\/a>with almost a dozen island nations.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/25\/we-saw-something-that-wasnt-right-and-we-acted-ardern-on-how-new-zealand-delivered-gun-control\">who is touring the US<\/a>, said she believed the Pacific could meet its security needs internally, implying it should do so without intervention from China or elsewhere. \u201cOn anything related to security arrangements, we are very strongly of the view that we have within the Pacific the means and ability to respond to any security challenges that exist and New Zealand is willing to do that,\u201d Ardern said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/jacinda-ardern-says-new-zealand-ready-to-respond-to-pacifics-security-needs-as-china-seeks-deal-in-region\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister says \u2018the Pacific is our home\u2019 as Beijing plans a regional security pact with almost a dozen island nationsJacinda Ardern says New Zealand is \u201cready to respond\u201d to security needs in the Pacific, after it emerged China is planning a Pacif&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"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":[41,43,645,50,436,268,56,874,63,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-fiji","category-jacinda-ardern","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\/44864","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\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44865,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44864\/revisions\/44865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}