{"id":44906,"date":"2022-05-27T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/new-zealand-and-allies-allowed-vacuum-to-develop-in-pacific-former-foreign-minister-says"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T01:27:41","slug":"new-zealand-and-allies-allowed-vacuum-to-develop-in-pacific-former-foreign-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44906","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand and allies allowed \u2018vacuum\u2019 to develop in Pacific, former foreign minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by Winston Peters come as China hopes 10 Pacific countries will sign wide-ranging security deal<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand and its allies have failed to listen to \u201calarm bells\u201d about China\u2019s growing influence, and allowed a \u201cvacuum\u201d to develop in the Pacific, New Zealand\u2019s former foreign minister Winston Peters has said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid news that China hopes 10 Pacific countries will sign a wide-ranging draft deal covering security, trade and investment. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">agreement <\/a>would dramatically increase China\u2019s influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/27\/new-zealand-and-allies-allowed-vacuum-to-develop-in-pacific-former-foreign-minister-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by Winston Peters come as China hopes 10 Pacific countries will sign wide-ranging security dealNew Zealand and its allies have failed to listen to \u201calarm bells\u201d about China\u2019s growing influence, and allowed a \u201cvacuum\u201d to develop in the Pacific,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,50,268,56,874,944,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-winston-peters","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\/44906","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44906\/revisions\/44907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}