{"id":44939,"date":"2022-05-28T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/28\/samoa-signs-china-bilateral-agreement-during-pacific-push-by-beijing"},"modified":"2022-05-28T16:55:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T07:55:58","slug":"samoa-signs-china-bilateral-agreement-during-pacific-push-by-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44939","title":{"rendered":"Samoa signs China bilateral agreement during Pacific push by Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scant details released apart from promises of infrastructure support, amid western concerns that China is seeking to expand its security presence in region<\/p>\n<p>Samoa signed a bilateral agreement with China on Saturday, promising \u201cgreater collaboration\u201d, as Beijing\u2019s foreign minister continues a tour of the Pacific that has sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/what-deals-is-china-pursuing-in-the-pacific-and-why-is-everyone-so-worried\">concern among western allies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The deal\u2019s details are unclear, and come midway through a Chinese delegation\u2019s eight-nation trip \u2013 but an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">leaked draft agreement<\/a> sent to several Pacific countries outlined plans to expand security and economic engagement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/28\/samoa-signs-china-bilateral-agreement-during-pacific-push-by-beijing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scant details released apart from promises of infrastructure support, amid western concerns that China is seeking to expand its security presence in regionSamoa signed a bilateral agreement with China on Saturday, promising \u201cgreater collaboration\u201d, as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,874,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44952,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44939\/revisions\/44952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}