{"id":45493,"date":"2022-06-17T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/us-promises-new-plan-for-the-pacific-to-keep-it-free-from-coercion"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:42:02","slug":"us-promises-new-plan-for-the-pacific-to-keep-it-free-from-coercion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45493","title":{"rendered":"US promises new plan for the Pacific to keep it \u2018free from coercion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington is \u2018stepping up across the board\u2019 its engagement with Pacific nations, says White House official<\/p>\n<p>The United States plans to propose a new initiative to address issues in the Pacific next week as it scrambles to offset China\u2019s thrust into the region, a top White House official said.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is \u201cstepping up across the board\u201d its engagement with Pacific island nations to address their concerns over everything from relations with Washington to illegal fishing, climate change and regional security, Kurt Campbell, a senior official for Asia in the national security council, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/us-promises-new-plan-for-the-pacific-to-keep-it-free-from-coercion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington is \u2018stepping up across the board\u2019 its engagement with Pacific nations, says White House officialThe United States plans to propose a new initiative to address issues in the Pacific next week as it scrambles to offset China\u2019s thrust into the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,874,581,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-us-news","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\/45493","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45494,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45493\/revisions\/45494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}