{"id":47615,"date":"2022-08-19T02:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/timor-leste-warns-it-will-work-with-china-if-australia-insists-on-pumping-timor-sea-gas-to-darwin"},"modified":"2022-08-19T02:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T17:30:52","slug":"timor-leste-warns-it-will-work-with-china-if-australia-insists-on-pumping-timor-sea-gas-to-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47615","title":{"rendered":"Timor-Leste warns it will work with China if Australia insists on pumping Timor Sea gas to Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> President Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta says his country\u2019s leadership \u2018has to make decisions \u2026 if necessary a trip to China\u2019<\/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> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Timor-Leste\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/21\/timor-leste-presidential-election-jose-ramos-horta-wins-in-landslide\">president, Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta<\/a>, has warned his nation will seek Chinese support if Australia and Woodside Energy fail to back a gas pipeline between the resource-rich Timor Sea and his country\u2019s southern shore, rather than Darwin.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos-Horta has warned Timor-Leste \u2013 Australia\u2019s neighbour and ally \u2013 would \u201cabsolutely\u201d look to Chinese investment to secure what he says is the \u201cnational strategic goal\u201d of piping gas from the Greater Sunrise fields to his nation\u2019s coast. The comments are likely to heighten concerns about Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/timor-leste-warns-it-will-work-with-china-if-australia-insists-on-pumping-timor-sea-gas-to-darwin\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: President Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta says his country\u2019s leadership \u2018has to make decisions \u2026 if necessary a trip to China\u2019Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastTimor-Leste\u2019s president, Jos\u00e9 Ramos-Horta, has warned his natio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"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":[41,43,645,50,733,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-gas","category-timor-leste"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615","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\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47615\/revisions\/47632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}