{"id":53287,"date":"2023-03-10T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T04:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/outgoing-president-of-micronesia-accuses-china-of-bribery-threats-and-interference"},"modified":"2023-03-10T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:07:14","slug":"outgoing-president-of-micronesia-accuses-china-of-bribery-threats-and-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53287","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing president of Micronesia accuses China of bribery, threats and interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter, Panuelo openly canvassed the country switching its diplomatic recognition from Beijing to Taipei<\/p>\n<p>China is engaged in \u201cpolitical warfare\u201d in the Pacific, the outgoing president of the Federated States of Micronesia has alleged in an excoriating letter, accusing Beijing officials of bribing elected officials in Micronesia, and even \u201cdirect threats against my personal safety\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Two months before his term as president expires, David Panuelo\u2019s letter alleged China was preparing for conflict over the island of Taiwan, and that its goal in interfering in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) was to render the country neutral in any potential Pacific war.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/10\/outgoing-president-of-micronesia-accuses-china-of-bribery-threats-and-interference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter, Panuelo openly canvassed the country switching its diplomatic recognition from Beijing to TaipeiChina is engaged in \u201cpolitical warfare\u201d in the Pacific, the outgoing president of the Federated States of Micronesia has alleged in an excori&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3626,"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":[41,50,952,874,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-micronesia","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan","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\/53287","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\/3626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53306,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53287\/revisions\/53306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}