{"id":58757,"date":"2023-09-27T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/pacific-divided-on-bidens-charm-offensive-with-calls-for-more-results-on-the-ground"},"modified":"2023-09-27T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T11:49:41","slug":"pacific-divided-on-bidens-charm-offensive-with-calls-for-more-results-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58757","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands prime minister says US must respect Pacific leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare hits out at US after skipping Biden summit as $200m in funding for Pacific nations draws criticism for \u2018trying to play catch up\u2019<\/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>The prime minister of Solomon Islands has criticised Washington, saying the US must respect Pacific leaders, after Joe Biden pledged $200m for the region in an effort widely seen as a push against China\u2019s growing presence.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/sep\/25\/biden-pacific-islands-aid-china\">hosted a group of Pacific leaders at a summit<\/a> in Washington this week, after a similar meeting a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/pacific-divided-on-bidens-charm-offensive-with-calls-for-more-results-on-the-ground\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manasseh Sogavare hits out at US after skipping Biden summit as $200m in funding for Pacific nations draws criticism for \u2018trying to play catch up\u2019China\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsThe prime minister of Solomon Islands has criti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[41,50,436,939,874,267,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fiji","category-joe-biden","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58757","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58780,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58757\/revisions\/58780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}