{"id":54967,"date":"2023-05-09T15:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/china-accuses-australia-of-trying-to-sabotage-its-relationships-in-pacific-region"},"modified":"2023-05-09T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T06:16:43","slug":"china-accuses-australia-of-trying-to-sabotage-its-relationships-in-pacific-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54967","title":{"rendered":"China accuses Australia of trying to sabotage its relationships in Pacific region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says US, Australia and New Zealand have \u2018a cold war mentality\u2019 and are driving up geopolitical tensions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/may\/09\/budget-2023-live-updates-australia-federal-treasurer-jim-chalmers-speech-australian-government-anthony-albanese-labor-cost-of-living-latest-news\">Australia budget 2023 live updates: federal treasurer Jim Chalmers to deliver budget speech tonight \u2013 latest news<\/a><\/li>\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:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">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>China has accused Australia of attempting to sabotage its relationships in the Pacific, saying Australia has a \u201ccold war mentality\u201d and is blinded by \u201cideological prejudice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Chinese diplomats said Australia has undermined Beijing\u2019s security and law enforcement cooperation with Fiji, alleging its relations with Fiji are being \u201ctargeted\u201d by Australia, the US and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><strong><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=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/09\/china-accuses-australia-of-trying-to-sabotage-its-relationships-in-pacific-region\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says US, Australia and New Zealand have \u2018a cold war mentality\u2019 and are driving up geopolitical tensionsAustralia budget 2023 live updates: federal treasurer Jim Chalmers to deliver budget speech tonight \u2013 latest newsGet our morning and afternoo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,645,50,436,874,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54967","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54967\/revisions\/54968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}