{"id":54014,"date":"2023-04-03T08:52:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/us-to-open-embassy-in-vanuatu-as-it-seeks-to-counter-china-in-the-pacific"},"modified":"2023-04-03T08:52:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:52:45","slug":"us-to-open-embassy-in-vanuatu-as-it-seeks-to-counter-china-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54014","title":{"rendered":"US to open embassy in Vanuatu as it seeks to counter China in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, which has ties with the island nation but has been represented by diplomats based in New Guinea, also plans embassies in Kiribati and Tonga<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/chinas-rising-power-and-influence-in-the-pacific-explained-in-30-seconds\">China\u2019s influence in the Pacific explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United States plans to open an embassy in Vanuatu, the state department has confirmed, as Washington moves to boost its diplomatic presence in the Pacific to counter China\u2019s growing influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsistent with the US Indo-Pacific strategy, a permanent diplomatic presence in Vanuatu would allow the US government to deepen relationships with Ni-Vanuatu officials and society,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/03\/us-to-open-embassy-in-vanuatu-as-it-seeks-to-counter-china-in-the-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, which has ties with the island nation but has been represented by diplomats based in New Guinea, also plans embassies in Kiribati and TongaChina\u2019s influence in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsThe United States plans to open an embassy in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,874,282,45,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-south-pacific","category-us-foreign-policy","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54015,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54014\/revisions\/54015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}