{"id":45065,"date":"2022-06-01T17:28:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/penny-wong-ramps-up-pacific-lobbying-effort-as-she-flies-out-to-samoa-and-tonga"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:28:32","slug":"penny-wong-ramps-up-pacific-lobbying-effort-as-she-flies-out-to-samoa-and-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45065","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wong ramps up Pacific lobbying effort as she flies out to Samoa and Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister tells regional leaders \u2018we understand we need to work together like never before\u2019 as battle for influence with China intensifies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><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><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Penny Wong is embarking on her third international trip since being sworn in as foreign affairs minister and will travel to two more Pacific countries \u2013 Samoa and Tonga \u2013 as Australia and China vie for influence in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Before boarding her flight on Wednesday evening, Wong said Australia would \u201cincrease our contribution to regional security\u201d and work together with Pacific countries \u201clike never before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/penny-wong-ramps-up-pacific-lobbying-effort-as-she-flies-out-to-samoa-and-tonga\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign affairs minister tells regional leaders \u2018we understand we need to work together like never before\u2019 as battle for influence with China intensifiesGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingPenny Wong is embarking on her third internati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[41,43,50,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45066,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45065\/revisions\/45066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}