{"id":49895,"date":"2022-11-02T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/australia-delivers-police-vehicles-and-rifles-to-solomon-islands-in-game-changer-donation"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:26:27","slug":"australia-delivers-police-vehicles-and-rifles-to-solomon-islands-in-game-changer-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49895","title":{"rendered":"Australia delivers police vehicles and rifles to Solomon Islands in \u2018game-changer\u2019 donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handover ceremony comes after turbulent year when Pacific country signed controversial security agreement with China<\/p>\n<p>Australia has announced the donation of police vehicles and 60 MK18 rifles to the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in a move described as a \u201cgame changer\u201d for Australia\u2019s relationship with Solomon Islands police.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a turbulent year in the relationship between Australia and Solomon Islands, particularly on the question of security, after the Pacific country signed a controversial and secretive security agreement with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/02\/australia-delivers-police-vehicles-and-rifles-to-solomon-islands-in-game-changer-donation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handover ceremony comes after turbulent year when Pacific country signed controversial security agreement with ChinaAustralia has announced the donation of police vehicles and 60 MK18 rifles to the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in a move d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,43,645,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","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\/49895","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49895\/revisions\/49896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}