{"id":53280,"date":"2023-03-10T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/biden-budget-includes-billions-for-pacific-islands-in-bid-to-out-compete-china"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:09:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:09:45","slug":"biden-budget-includes-billions-for-pacific-islands-in-bid-to-out-compete-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53280","title":{"rendered":"Biden budget includes billions for Pacific islands in bid to \u2018out-compete\u2019 China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau stand to benefit as White House warns of Beijing\u2019s intent and ability to \u2018reshape the international order\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>Alarmed by China\u2019s success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spend billions from its federal budget to keep three of those countries in the US orbit.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s spending plan, released on Thursday, includes more than $7.1bn in funding for the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. The money is included in the $63.1bn request for the state department and the US Agency for International Development.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/biden-budget-includes-billions-for-pacific-islands-in-bid-to-out-compete-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau stand to benefit as White House warns of Beijing\u2019s intent and ability to \u2018reshape the international order\u2019 Alarmed by China\u2019s success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,939,874,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-pacific-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\/53280","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53281,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280\/revisions\/53281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}