{"id":44876,"date":"2022-05-26T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/five-things-we-learned-about-chinas-ambitions-for-the-pacific-from-the-leaked-deal"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:09:00","slug":"five-things-we-learned-about-chinas-ambitions-for-the-pacific-from-the-leaked-deal-anna-powles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44876","title":{"rendered":"Five things we learned about China\u2019s ambitions for the Pacific from the leaked deal | Anna Powles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The draft communique reveals the ambitious scope of Beijing\u2019s intent in the Pacific and a coherent desire from China to seek to shape the regional order <\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago, Pacific security thinkers would debate whether Chinese engagement in the Pacific was by default or by design.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">leaked draft of the regional and economic agreement<\/a> China is hoping will be signed by 10 Pacific nations next week answers that question.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Anna Powles, a senior lecturer in security studies at Massey University in New Zealand<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/five-things-we-learned-about-chinas-ambitions-for-the-pacific-from-the-leaked-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draft communique reveals the ambitious scope of Beijing\u2019s intent in the Pacific and a coherent desire from China to seek to shape the regional order Ten years ago, Pacific security thinkers would debate whether Chinese engagement in the Pacific was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3089,"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":[41,50,874,581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","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\/44876","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\/3089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44876\/revisions\/44877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}