{"id":46306,"date":"2022-07-12T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/china-influenced-kiribati-exit-from-pacific-islands-forum-mp-claims"},"modified":"2022-07-12T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T01:51:28","slug":"china-influenced-kiribati-exit-from-pacific-islands-forum-mp-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46306","title":{"rendered":"China influenced Kiribati exit from Pacific Islands Forum, MP claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader calls withdrawal from PIF an \u2018extreme move\u2019 and claims the reasons offered by Kiribati\u2019s president were just excuses<\/p>\n<p>Kiribati\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Pacific Islands Forum on the eve of the event was an extreme move driven by pressure from China, the Micronesian nation\u2019s opposition leader says.<\/p>\n<p>Tessie Lambourne, a former top diplomat who was elected to Kiribati\u2019s parliament in 2020, said she was \u201cshocked and extremely disappointed\u201d by the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/kiribati-withdraws-from-pacific-islands-forum-pif-micronesia\">move to withdraw<\/a> from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/china-influenced-kiribati-exit-from-pacific-islands-forum-mp-claims\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leader calls withdrawal from PIF an \u2018extreme move\u2019 and claims the reasons offered by Kiribati\u2019s president were just excusesKiribati\u2019s decision to withdraw from the Pacific Islands Forum on the eve of the event was an extreme move driven by p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2822,"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":[41,50,591,874,581,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","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\/46306","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\/2822"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46307,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions\/46307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}