{"id":53678,"date":"2023-03-22T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/chinese-state-company-wins-contract-to-redevelop-solomon-islands-honiara"},"modified":"2023-03-22T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T08:38:21","slug":"chinese-state-company-wins-contract-to-redevelop-solomon-islands-port-prompting-cautious-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53678","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state company wins contract to redevelop Solomon Islands port, prompting cautious response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa\u2019s prime minister says port \u2018might morph into something else\u2019 and suggests Pacific countries may have to monitor situation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Chinese state company has won a major contract to redevelop the port in Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, prompting a cautious response from Pacific neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of Samoa, Fiam\u0113 Naomi Mata\u02bbafa, raised concerns that the commercial port \u201cmight morph into something else\u201d and suggested that Pacific countries may have to monitor the situation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/22\/chinese-state-company-wins-contract-to-redevelop-solomon-islands-honiara\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samoa\u2019s prime minister says port \u2018might morph into something else\u2019 and suggests Pacific countries may have to monitor situationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Chinese state company has won a major contract to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"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":[41,43,645,324,874,936,63,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-pacific-islands","category-samoa","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\/53678","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53679,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678\/revisions\/53679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}