{"id":56973,"date":"2023-07-26T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/antony-blinken-tonga-visit-china-problematic-nukualofa"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T05:27:16","slug":"antony-blinken-calls-chinas-behaviour-in-the-pacific-problematic-on-visit-to-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56973","title":{"rendered":"Antony Blinken calls China\u2019s behaviour in the Pacific \u2018problematic\u2019 on visit to Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says China\u2019s investments need to be transparent as Washington and Beijing jostle for influence in the region<\/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 influence in the Pacific explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US secretary of state Antony Blinken warned of China\u2019s \u201cproblematic behaviour\u201d during a visit to the Pacific island nation of Tonga, citing Beijing\u2019s militarisation of the South China Sea and what he called economic coercion.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s growing presence in the region, which saw it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/the-deal-that-shocked-the-world-inside-the-china-solomons-security-pact\">sign a security pact <\/a>with the Solomon Islands last year, has fuelled concern in the US and Australia about Beijing\u2019s ambitions, and prompted increased Western aid and engagement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/antony-blinken-tonga-visit-china-problematic-nukualofa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US secretary of state says China\u2019s investments need to be transparent as Washington and Beijing jostle for influence in the regionChina\u2019s rising influence in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsUS secretary of state Antony Blinken warned of China\u2019s \u201cpro&#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":[2003,50,874,280,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56973","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=56973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56973\/revisions\/56974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}