{"id":57622,"date":"2023-08-17T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/us-delegate-says-solomon-islands-pm-was-too-busy-to-meet-him"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T03:16:12","slug":"us-delegate-says-solomon-islands-pm-was-too-busy-to-meet-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57622","title":{"rendered":"US delegate says Solomon Islands PM was too \u2018busy\u2019 to meet him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Neal Dunn, part of select committee on competition with China, says failure to meet Manasseh Sogavare was a \u2018missed opportunity\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare declined a request this week to meet members of a high-profile US congressional delegation who are focused on competition with China.<\/p>\n<p>The visit to Solomon Islands by representatives from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/mar\/01\/time-not-on-our-side-congress-panel-says-tackling-china-defines-next-century\">US select committee on the Chinese Communist party<\/a> comes amid a growing struggle for influence between the US and China in the Pacific region. Last year, Solomon Islands signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/the-deal-that-shocked-the-world-inside-the-china-solomons-security-pact\">controversial security pact<\/a> with the Chinese government and in July, the prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/solomon-islands-signs-controversial-policing-pact-with-china\">agreed a new deal on police cooperation<\/a> while on a trip to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/us-delegate-says-solomon-islands-pm-was-too-busy-to-meet-him\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Neal Dunn, part of select committee on competition with China, says failure to meet Manasseh Sogavare was a \u2018missed opportunity\u2019Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare declined a request this week to meet members of a high-profile &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3899,"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":[41,436,874,63,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-us-foreign-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57622","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\/3899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57622\/revisions\/57623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}