{"id":56718,"date":"2023-07-17T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/chris-hipkins-new-zealand-pm-prime-minister-pacific-region-less-secure-china"},"modified":"2023-07-17T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T00:01:18","slug":"new-zealand-pm-says-pacific-region-less-secure-amid-chinas-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56718","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand PM says Pacific region less secure amid China\u2019s rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins says Beijing exerting influence is \u2018major driver\u2019 of increasing competition in the Indo-Pacific<\/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>New Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has said that the Pacific region is becoming \u201cmore contested, less predictable, and less secure\u201d as China becomes more assertive.<\/p>\n<p>Hipkins said it was important that New Zealand continues to engage with China to listen and to build dialogue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/17\/chris-hipkins-new-zealand-pm-prime-minister-pacific-region-less-secure-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hipkins says Beijing exerting influence is \u2018major driver\u2019 of increasing competition in the Indo-PacificChina\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsNew Zealand prime minister Chris Hipkins has said that the Pacific region is becomin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56718\/revisions\/56719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}