{"id":45452,"date":"2022-06-15T12:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/15\/new-zealand-to-boost-maritime-security-with-solomon-islands-amid-china-focus-on-pacific"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T03:26:58","slug":"new-zealand-to-boost-maritime-security-with-solomon-islands-amid-china-focus-on-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45452","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand to boost maritime security with Solomon Islands amid China focus on Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Small work plan\u2019 is another signal of intensifying security interests in the region, in the wake of Beijing\u2019s security deal with Honiara<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand is developing its own maritime security \u201cwork plans\u201d with Solomon Islands, its defence minister has said, months after news of China\u2019s defence pact with the Pacific nation emerged.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand minister Peeni Henare said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsroom.co.nz\/nz-solomons-security-deal-in-development\">in an interview with Newsroom<\/a> published on Tuesday that the two countries had begun discussions of a work plan, focused on maritime security, after his meeting with Solomon Islands\u2019 national security minister, Anthony Veke, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/15\/new-zealand-to-boost-maritime-security-with-solomon-islands-amid-china-focus-on-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Small work plan\u2019 is another signal of intensifying security interests in the region, in the wake of Beijing\u2019s security deal with HoniaraNew Zealand is developing its own maritime security \u201cwork plans\u201d with Solomon Islands, its defence minister has sai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,50,56,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand","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\/45452","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45453,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45452\/revisions\/45453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}