{"id":58078,"date":"2023-09-05T09:38:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/pacific-games-2023-solomon-island-china-cost-controversy"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:38:44","slug":"china-gifts-and-cost-concerns-pacific-games-stir-controversy-in-solomon-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58078","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018gifts\u2019 and cost concerns: Pacific Games stir controversy in Solomon Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The host nation has attracted criticism over the price tag of November\u2019s event, while an expert labels Chinese funding \u2018shrewd diplomacy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Luke Haga has spent the past two years getting ready for the race of his life. Haga, a sprinter, is preparing for the Pacific Games which will be held in his home of Solomon Islands in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a time for sports, fun, and to celebrate our togetherness, \u201d says the 23-year-old, who is training for his events in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/05\/pacific-games-2023-solomon-island-china-cost-controversy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The host nation has attracted criticism over the price tag of November\u2019s event, while an expert labels Chinese funding \u2018shrewd diplomacy\u2019Luke Haga has spent the past two years getting ready for the race of his life. Haga, a sprinter, is preparing for t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2684,"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":[41,50,874,63,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58078","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\/2684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58078\/revisions\/58079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}