{"id":52292,"date":"2023-02-02T12:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T03:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/us-opens-embassy-in-solomon-islands-to-counter-china"},"modified":"2023-02-02T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T03:21:41","slug":"us-opens-embassy-in-solomon-islands-after-30-year-absence-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52292","title":{"rendered":"US opens embassy in Solomon Islands after 30-year absence to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid concerns about Beijing\u2019s military ambitions in Indo-Pacific region after it struck a security pact with Solomons last year<\/p>\n<p>The United States has opened an embassy in Solomon Islands after a 30-year absence as it seeks to boost diplomatic relations in the Pacific as a counter to China.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced the news late on Wednesday, saying that \u201cmore than any other part of the world, the Indo-Pacific region \u2013 including the Pacific Islands \u2013 will shape the world\u2019s trajectory in the 21st century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/us-opens-embassy-in-solomon-islands-to-counter-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes amid concerns about Beijing\u2019s military ambitions in Indo-Pacific region after it struck a security pact with Solomons last yearThe United States has opened an embassy in Solomon Islands after a 30-year absence as it seeks to boost diplomatic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3551,"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":[2003,41,50,874,63,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/52292","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\/3551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52293,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52292\/revisions\/52293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}