{"id":48881,"date":"2022-09-28T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/28\/bidens-summit-with-pacific-leaders-is-a-direct-response-to-china-but-the-us-should-tread-carefully"},"modified":"2022-09-28T04:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:00:46","slug":"bidens-summit-with-pacific-leaders-is-a-direct-response-to-china-but-the-us-should-tread-carefully-gerard-finin-and-terence-wesley-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48881","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s summit with Pacific leaders is a direct response to China, but the US should tread carefully | Gerard Finin and Terence Wesley-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Pacific leaders value relations with both competing powers and do not want to be forced to choose sides<\/p>\n<p>This week, the White House will host its first-ever summit with Pacific Islands leaders. The Pacific spans nearly a third of the globe and is home to 16 island nations. In geostrategic terms, the region is more important today than any time since the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>The summit is a direct response to China\u2019s growing influence in a region where western strategic interests have long gone unchallenged. The significance of this development is amplified by persistent whispers that China\u2019s navy seeks permanent access to Pacific port facilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/28\/bidens-summit-with-pacific-leaders-is-a-direct-response-to-china-but-the-us-should-tread-carefully\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Pacific leaders value relations with both competing powers and do not want to be forced to choose sidesThis week, the White House will host its first-ever summit with Pacific Islands leaders. The Pacific spans nearly a third of the globe and is ho&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3336,"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":[50,939,874,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-pacific-islands","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881","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\/3336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48881\/revisions\/48882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}