{"id":59505,"date":"2023-10-30T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/30\/us-china-conflict-pacific-free-media"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:07:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:07:45","slug":"us-vows-to-support-free-media-in-pacific-as-concern-over-china-influence-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59505","title":{"rendered":"US vows to support \u2018free media\u2019 in Pacific as concern over China influence grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will look to partner with Pacific media sector, top official tells the Guardian <\/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>Regional media has emerged as a new front in the contest between the US and China in the Pacific, as Washington said it will support \u201cfree media\u201d while warning of the dangers of Beijing\u2019s efforts to manipulate information around the world.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to countries in the Indo-Pacific in October, the US under secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs, Elizabeth Allen, said Washington was \u201cprioritising the support of independent media\u201d across the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/30\/us-china-conflict-pacific-free-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington will look to partner with Pacific media sector, top official tells the Guardian China\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsRegional media has emerged as a new front in the contest between the US and China in the Pacific, as W&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2679,"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":[50,436,238,874,54,282,47,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-fiji","category-media","category-pacific-islands","category-press-freedom","category-south-pacific","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\/59505","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\/2679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59506,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions\/59506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}