{"id":57819,"date":"2023-08-25T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/25\/fiji-prime-minister-warns-against-us-and-china-attempts-to-polarise-pacific"},"modified":"2023-08-25T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T04:12:06","slug":"fiji-prime-minister-warns-against-us-and-china-attempts-to-polarise-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57819","title":{"rendered":"Fiji prime minister warns against US and China attempts to \u2018polarise\u2019 Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitiveni Rabuka says island countries must be \u2018zone of non-aligned territories\u2019 and hopes big powers will avoid military conflict<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific islands should be a \u201czone of peace\u201d, Fiji\u2019s prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has said, adding that he hopes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/may\/07\/in-new-battle-for-the-pacific-us-and-china-force-regional-states-to-take-sides\">rivalry between the US and China<\/a> in the strategic region does not develop into a military conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Rabuka was speaking after attending a summit meeting of several Pacific island leaders, where climate change and regional security dominated the agenda. The leaders of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji and New Caledonia\u2019s ruling FLNKS party met in Vanuatu on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/25\/fiji-prime-minister-warns-against-us-and-china-attempts-to-polarise-pacific\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitiveni Rabuka says island countries must be \u2018zone of non-aligned territories\u2019 and hopes big powers will avoid military conflictThe Pacific islands should be a \u201czone of peace\u201d, Fiji\u2019s prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has said, adding that he hopes a r&#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":[41,50,436,1102,874,267,63,47,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","category-new-caledonia","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-solomon-islands","category-us-news","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57819","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=57819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57820,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57819\/revisions\/57820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}