{"id":44884,"date":"2022-05-26T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/penny-wong-tells-pacific-nations-we-have-heard-you-as-australia-and-china-battle-for-influence"},"modified":"2022-05-26T18:14:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T09:14:07","slug":"penny-wong-tells-pacific-nations-we-have-heard-you-as-australia-and-china-battle-for-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44884","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wong tells Pacific nations \u2018we have heard you\u2019 as Australia and China battle for influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister uses speech in Fiji to declare \u2018this is a different Australian government\u2019 that will act responsibly on climate change<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/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>The new foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has promised to treat Pacific island countries with respect, telling an audience in Fiji that Australia is \u201ca partner that doesn\u2019t come with strings attached\u201d and won\u2019t \u201cimpose unsustainable financial burdens\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Wong promised to respect Pacific priorities and institutions as she set out an implicit contrast with China, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">pursuing a sweeping regional economic and security deal with Pacific nations<\/a> that would dramatically expand Beijing\u2019s influence and reach into those countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/penny-wong-tells-pacific-nations-we-have-heard-you-as-australia-and-china-battle-for-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister uses speech in Fiji to declare \u2018this is a different Australian government\u2019 that will act responsibly on climate changeFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3090,"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":[41,43,645,324,50,2331,493,65,436,735,874,581,1767,282,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-energy","category-environment","category-fiji","category-labor-party","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-penny-wong","category-south-pacific","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884","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\/3090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44885,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44884\/revisions\/44885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}