{"id":55805,"date":"2023-06-07T13:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/fiji-rethinks-police-deal-with-china-amid-rising-pacific-tensions"},"modified":"2023-06-07T13:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:30:35","slug":"fiji-rethinks-police-deal-with-china-amid-rising-pacific-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55805","title":{"rendered":"Fiji rethinks police deal with China amid rising Pacific tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Fijian government signed a memorandum of understanding in 2011 enabling its police officers to undergo training in China<\/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 rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Fijian prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has said a police exchange agreement with China is under review as his government considers whether to cancel it outright.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Fiji\u2019s government \u2013 a military dictatorship at the time \u2013 signed a memorandum of understanding enabling Fijian police officers to be trained in China. It also saw Chinese officers deployed to Fiji.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/07\/fiji-rethinks-police-deal-with-china-amid-rising-pacific-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous Fijian government signed a memorandum of understanding in 2011 enabling its police officers to undergo training in ChinaChina\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsThe Fijian prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has said a police ex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","category-pacific-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\/55805","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55805\/revisions\/55806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}