{"id":57059,"date":"2023-07-29T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/pacific-pulling-power-western-leaders-rush-to-region-in-effort-to-counter-china"},"modified":"2023-07-29T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T02:42:31","slug":"pacific-pulling-power-western-leaders-rush-to-region-in-effort-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57059","title":{"rendered":"Pacific pulling power: western leaders rush to region in effort to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Week of visits by Emmanuel Macron, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin underlines concerns over Beijing\u2019s growing influence<\/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>France\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, took off his suit jacket and tie on Friday and wandered through more than a mile of the wild forests of Papua New Guinea, accompanied by the country\u2019s prime minister, James Marape. The leaders\u2019 walk through the lush Varirata national park was underlined by the signing of a new environmental initiative \u2013 backed by French and EU financing \u2013 that will reward countries that preserve their rainforests.<\/p>\n<p>At the final stop on their forest walk, they both came to a panorama of partially forested hills stretching into the distance, newly named in the VIP visitor\u2019s honour: \u201cEmmanuel Jean-Michel Frederic Macron Lookout\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/29\/pacific-pulling-power-western-leaders-rush-to-region-in-effort-to-counter-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week of visits by Emmanuel Macron, Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin underlines concerns over Beijing\u2019s growing influenceChina\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsFrance\u2019s president, Emmanuel Macron, took off his suit jacket and tie on F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3868,"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":[2003,41,1102,874,267,282,280,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-south-pacific","category-tonga","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059","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\/3868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57059\/revisions\/57060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}