{"id":44988,"date":"2022-05-30T08:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-meet-with-pacific-nations-amid-push-for-sweeping-regional-deal"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:27:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T07:27:32","slug":"chinas-foreign-minister-to-meet-with-pacific-nations-amid-push-for-sweeping-regional-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44988","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s foreign minister tells Pacific leaders \u2018don\u2019t be too anxious\u2019 after they reject regional security pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amended<\/p>\n<p>Pacific countries have declined to sign up to a sweeping regional economic and security deal proposed by China, after a crucial meeting of Pacific foreign ministers and their Chinese counterpart on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s foreign minister Wang Yi is in the middle of a marathon tour of the region, visiting eight countries in 10 days, a trip that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-visit-solomon-islands-amid-push-for-more-deals-with-pacific-countries\">security experts have said<\/a> represents a dramatic \u201cuptick in tempo\u201d of China\u2019s push for influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/30\/chinas-foreign-minister-to-meet-with-pacific-nations-amid-push-for-sweeping-regional-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Pacific nations reportedly want to defer action on the draft agreement or have it amendedPacific countries have declined to sign up to a sweeping regional economic and security deal proposed by China, after a crucial meeting of Pacific foreign &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,50,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","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\/44988","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44988\/revisions\/45008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}