{"id":46254,"date":"2022-07-10T19:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/kiribati-withdraws-from-pacific-islands-forum-pif-micronesia"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T10:59:36","slug":"kiribati-withdraws-from-pacific-islands-forum-in-blow-to-regional-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46254","title":{"rendered":"Kiribati withdraws from Pacific Islands Forum in blow to regional body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says it will not be attending forum because of failure to address concerns of Micronesian countries<\/p>\n<p>The key diplomatic body in the Pacific has been dealt a devastating blow on the eve of its first in-person meeting since the pandemic, as Kiribati announced it would be withdrawing from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific has become a site of intense geostrategic competition, as a result of increased interest from China, and Kiribati\u2019s withdrawal will weaken the forum at a time when Pacific regionalism in the face of fierce geopolitical attention has never been more important.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/kiribati-withdraws-from-pacific-islands-forum-pif-micronesia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says it will not be attending forum because of failure to address concerns of Micronesian countriesThe key diplomatic body in the Pacific has been dealt a devastating blow on the eve of its first in-person meeting since the pandemic, as Kirib&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3172,"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":[41,591,952,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kiribati","category-micronesia","category-pacific-islands","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\/46254","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\/3172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46255,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46254\/revisions\/46255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}