{"id":46387,"date":"2022-07-14T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/solomon-islands-pm-rules-out-chinese-military-base-china-australia-security-partner-manasseh-sogavare"},"modified":"2022-07-14T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T00:45:06","slug":"solomon-islands-pm-rules-out-china-military-base-and-says-australia-is-security-partner-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46387","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands PM rules out China military base and says Australia is \u2018security partner of choice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: In his first interview since the security deal with Beijing, Manasseh Sogavare says he would only call on China if there was a \u2018gap\u2019 that Australia could not fill<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>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><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prime minister of Solomon Islands has guaranteed there will never be a Chinese military base in his country, saying that any such deal with Beijing would undermine regional security, make Solomon Islands an \u201cenemy\u201d and \u201cput our country and our people as targets for potential military strikes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He has also said that Australia remains the \u201csecurity partner of choice\u201d for Solomon Islands and he would only call on China to send security personnel to the country if there was a \u201cgap\u201d that Australia could not meet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/14\/solomon-islands-pm-rules-out-chinese-military-base-china-australia-security-partner-manasseh-sogavare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: In his first interview since the security deal with Beijing, Manasseh Sogavare says he would only call on China if there was a \u2018gap\u2019 that Australia could not fillGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThe prime m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3176,"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":[41,43,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-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\/46387","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\/3176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46387\/revisions\/46388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}