{"id":50900,"date":"2022-12-05T23:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/papua-new-guinea-cant-afford-australia-and-us-standoff-with-china-james-marape-warns"},"modified":"2022-12-05T23:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:00:44","slug":"papua-new-guinea-cant-afford-australia-and-us-standoff-with-china-james-marape-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50900","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea can\u2019t afford Australia and US standoff with China, James Marape warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PNG prime minister tells west \u2018your enemy is not our enemy\u2019 as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the Pacific<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <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 Papua New Guinea has warned that his country will not be caught in a \u201cstandoff\u201d between the US, Australia and China, as geopolitical tensions in the Pacific increase, warning the global powers to \u201ckeep your fights to yourselves\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation is still an emerging economy, we cannot afford the standoff between our trading partners,\u201d James Marape told the Guardian while on a visit to Sydney for a petroleum and mining conference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/05\/papua-new-guinea-cant-afford-australia-and-us-standoff-with-china-james-marape-warns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNG prime minister tells west \u2018your enemy is not our enemy\u2019 as he tries to steer clear of geopolitical struggle gripping the PacificGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister of Papua New Guinea has warn&#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":[41,43,50,267,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-papua-new-guinea","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900","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=50900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50901,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900\/revisions\/50901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}