{"id":45093,"date":"2022-06-02T12:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/chinas-wang-yi-heads-to-papua-new-guinea-amid-tensions-over-election"},"modified":"2022-06-02T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T10:07:06","slug":"chinas-wang-yi-heads-to-papua-new-guinea-amid-tensions-over-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45093","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Wang Yi visits Papua New Guinea amid tensions over election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PM Peter O\u2019Neill criticises timing of foreign minister\u2019s visit, saying no agreements should be signed with Beijing before poll<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s top diplomat has begun his visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/papua-new-guinea\">Papua New Guinea<\/a> in the midst of the island\u2019s national election as Beijing races to salvage a controversial deal in a battle of influence with Australia and other western powers.<\/p>\n<p>The visit of Wang Yi, China\u2019s foreign minister, came a few days after a proposed economic and security deal collapsed on Monday. But his visit has also been criticised by the former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O\u2019Neill, who is campaigning to take back the top job, in a series of media interviews, during which he said no agreements should be signed with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> before the national election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/02\/chinas-wang-yi-heads-to-papua-new-guinea-amid-tensions-over-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PM Peter O\u2019Neill criticises timing of foreign minister\u2019s visit, saying no agreements should be signed with Beijing before pollChina\u2019s top diplomat has begun his visit to Papua New Guinea in the midst of the island\u2019s national election as Beijing race&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,645,50,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/45093","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45101,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45093\/revisions\/45101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}