{"id":45079,"date":"2022-06-02T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/the-rejection-of-chinas-deal-shows-the-pacific-will-not-be-a-geopolitical-pawn"},"modified":"2022-06-02T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:00:19","slug":"the-rejection-of-chinas-deal-shows-the-pacific-will-not-be-used-as-a-geopolitical-pawn-henry-ivarature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45079","title":{"rendered":"The rejection of China\u2019s deal shows the Pacific will not be used as a geopolitical pawn | Henry Ivarature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific leaders have sent a strong message that countries who want to partner with them must treat them with respect and take action on climate change<\/p>\n<p>Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi is nearing the end of a marathon tour of eight Pacific states. By Saturday, he will have visited Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n<p>While Wang will come away with multiple bilateral economic and development agreements, he will not return to China with the big prize \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/26\/deal-proposed-by-china-would-dramatically-expand-security-influence-in-pacific\">a comprehensive security treaty, which would have seen a reconfiguration of the political landscape in the Pacific<\/a>, which 10 Pacific states declined to sign at a virtual meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/the-rejection-of-chinas-deal-shows-the-pacific-will-not-be-a-geopolitical-pawn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific leaders have sent a strong message that countries who want to partner with them must treat them with respect and take action on climate changeChinese foreign minister Wang Yi is nearing the end of a marathon tour of eight Pacific states. By Sat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3103,"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":[41,50,874,581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","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\/45079","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\/3103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45079\/revisions\/45080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}