{"id":58801,"date":"2023-09-28T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/playing-the-china-card-or-a-serious-regional-threat-timor-lestes-new-deal-with-beijing-australia"},"modified":"2023-09-28T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T04:40:35","slug":"playing-the-china-card-or-a-serious-regional-threat-timor-lestes-new-deal-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58801","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Playing the China card\u2019 or a serious regional threat? Timor Leste\u2019s new deal with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upgrading of ties with Beijing caught regional leaders by surprise, but experts say it could be a strategy to secure investment from Australia<\/p>\n<p>It lies just to the north of Australia, but the tiny and impoverished country of Timor Leste is strengthening ties with China as it faces a looming fiscal crisis \u2013 a move that comes after decades of mistreatment by Canberra and raises difficult questions for its leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Timor-Leste, which is situated 680km from Darwin and has massive and untapped undersea resources, surprised the region last week when it formally upgraded bilateral relations with China. A joint statement included plans to enhance military cooperation and explore developments of Timor-Leste\u2019s oil and gas resources.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/playing-the-china-card-or-a-serious-regional-threat-timor-lestes-new-deal-with-beijing-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upgrading of ties with Beijing caught regional leaders by surprise, but experts say it could be a strategy to secure investment from AustraliaIt lies just to the north of Australia, but the tiny and impoverished country of Timor Leste is strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,43,50,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-timor-leste"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58801","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58835,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58801\/revisions\/58835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}