{"id":56575,"date":"2023-07-11T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T00:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/solomon-islands-signs-controversial-policing-pact-with-china"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T00:24:27","slug":"solomon-islands-signs-controversial-policing-pact-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56575","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands signs controversial policing pact with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomons\u2019 prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, meets with leaders as part of week-long visit to China<\/p>\n<p>China and Solomon Islands have signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a \u201ccomprehensive strategic partnership\u201d, four years after the Pacific country switched ties from Taiwan to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The police cooperation pact was among nine deals signed as the prime minister of Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, met with the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, in Beijing, underlining the Solmons\u2019 foreign policy shift.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/solomon-islands-signs-controversial-policing-pact-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomons\u2019 prime minister, Manasseh Sogavare, meets with leaders as part of week-long visit to ChinaChina and Solomon Islands have signed a deal on police cooperation as part of an upgrade of their relations to a \u201ccomprehensive strategic partnership\u201d, f&#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":[41,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575","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=56575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56594,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56575\/revisions\/56594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}