{"id":60015,"date":"2023-11-22T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/22\/fiji-may-partner-china-port-shipyard-development"},"modified":"2023-11-22T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T06:01:47","slug":"fiji-may-partner-with-china-to-upgrade-ports-and-shipyards-pm-rabuka-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60015","title":{"rendered":"Fiji may partner with China to upgrade ports and shipyards, PM Rabuka says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fijian leader \u2018anticipates collaboration\u2019 with Beijing on projects amid rising concern over China\u2019s ambitions in Pacific<\/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 growing power in the Pacific explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China may help Fiji develop its ports and shipyards, the Pacific island country\u2019s prime minister said, raising the prospect of stronger ties with Beijing in a key area of its economy.<\/p>\n<p>Prime minister Sitiveni Rabuka, who has been cautious about China\u2019s expanding security footprint in the Pacific, praised Beijing\u2019s record of aid to Fiji in fighting Covid-19, developing agriculture and revamping infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/22\/fiji-may-partner-china-port-shipyard-development\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fijian leader \u2018anticipates collaboration\u2019 with Beijing on projects amid rising concern over China\u2019s ambitions in PacificChina\u2019s growing power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsChina may help Fiji develop its ports and shipyards, the Pacific island &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,43,50,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/60015","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60016,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60015\/revisions\/60016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}