{"id":46342,"date":"2022-07-13T02:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/power-struggle-with-china-and-regional-rift-in-focus-as-anthony-albanese-heads-to-pacific-islands-forum"},"modified":"2022-07-13T02:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T17:30:01","slug":"power-struggle-with-china-and-regional-rift-in-focus-as-anthony-albanese-heads-to-pacific-islands-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46342","title":{"rendered":"Power struggle with China and regional rift in focus as Anthony Albanese heads to Pacific Islands forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of Kiribati from the meeting is \u2018really devastating\u2019 to the body\u2019s long-term strategy, security expert says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Anthony Albanese touches down in Suva on Wednesday to attend his first Pacific Islands Forum, he will be walking in to a regional meeting that is putting on a brave face.<\/p>\n<p>While it had been thought that the forum would be focused on the growing influence of China and as an opportunity for Australia to showcase its new climate credentials, Albanese will arrive to a group wrestling with other problems.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/12\/power-struggle-with-china-and-regional-rift-in-focus-as-anthony-albanese-heads-to-pacific-islands-forum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absence of Kiribati from the meeting is \u2018really devastating\u2019 to the body\u2019s long-term strategy, security expert saysGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastWhen Anthony Albanese touches down in Suva on Wednesday to attend his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3175,"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":[961,41,43,645,50,436,591,602,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-fiji","category-kiribati","category-marshall-islands","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\/46342","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\/3175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46353,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46342\/revisions\/46353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}