{"id":44872,"date":"2022-05-26T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T03:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/what-deals-is-china-pursuing-in-the-pacific-and-why-is-everyone-so-worried"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T03:37:39","slug":"what-deals-is-china-pursuing-in-the-pacific-and-why-is-everyone-so-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44872","title":{"rendered":"What deals is China pursuing in the Pacific and why is everyone so worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign minister is embarking on a grand tour of Pacific nations amid western concerns about Beijing\u2019s ambitions for the region<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">Deal proposed by China would dramatically expand security influence in Pacific<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s ambitions in the Pacific first attracted renewed attention back in March, when news leaked of a draft security agreement that would grant Chinese military and police significant access to Solomon Islands. The news surprised Australia and New Zealand, the Solomon\u2019s traditional security partners, as well as other Pacific nations and the US. This week \u2013 as Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi embarked on a 10-day visit to the Pacific taking in eight countries \u2013 news broke that Beijing was seeking to secure a sweeping economic security deal with 10 countries that would mean a dramatic expansion of its influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/what-deals-is-china-pursuing-in-the-pacific-and-why-is-everyone-so-worried\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s foreign minister is embarking on a grand tour of Pacific nations amid western concerns about Beijing\u2019s ambitions for the regionDeal proposed by China would dramatically expand security influence in PacificChina\u2019s ambitions in the Pacific first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1748,"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":[41,43,50,56,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-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\/44872","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\/1748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44873,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44872\/revisions\/44873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}