{"id":46389,"date":"2022-07-14T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jul\/14\/australia-pm-anthony-albanese-very-confident-no-chinese-bases-china-solomon-islands-pif-pacific-islands-forum"},"modified":"2022-07-14T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T23:30:54","slug":"australian-pm-albanese-very-confident-there-will-be-no-chinese-bases-in-solomon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46389","title":{"rendered":"Australian PM Albanese \u2018very confident\u2019 there will be no Chinese bases in Solomon Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s comments come after meeting with Solomons leader at Pacific Islands Forum and despite Pacific nation\u2019s security pact with China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/jul\/14\/australia-live-updates-anthony-albanese-pacific-islands-forum-china-climate-emissions-health-covid-cases-hospitals-mask\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\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>The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has said he is \u201cvery confident\u201d there will not be Chinese bases in Solomon Islands, despite the two countries\u2019 security pact.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese made the comments from Fiji, where he is attending the Pacific Islands Forum in a bid to reset relations with Pacific neighbours by outlining higher ambitions on climate change and asking for Australia to remain the region\u2019s security partner of choice, not China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jul\/14\/australia-pm-anthony-albanese-very-confident-no-chinese-bases-china-solomon-islands-pif-pacific-islands-forum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister Anthony Albanese\u2019s comments come after meeting with Solomons leader at Pacific Islands Forum and despite Pacific nation\u2019s security pact with ChinaFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning em&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3177,"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":[961,41,43,50,874,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","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\/46389","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\/3177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46389\/revisions\/46390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}