{"id":63209,"date":"2024-04-10T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/micronesia-president-wesley-simina-military-capabilities-us-airport-upgrade-yap"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:41:23","slug":"micronesia-president-says-us-beefing-up-military-capabilities-in-the-pacific-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63209","title":{"rendered":"Micronesia president says US beefing up military capabilities in the Pacific country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Simina says the US is \u2018well advanced\u2019 in plans for $400m airport upgrade in Yap, amid rising tensions with China in the region<\/p>\n<p>The US is considering military projects across the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) as it pushes ahead with plans for a $400m airport upgrade in the country to boost defence capabilities in the Pacific, President Wesley Simina said.<\/p>\n<p>The region is of growing strategic importance to the US amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/16\/pacific-islands-us-funding-bill-china-relationship-joe-biden\">battle for influence with China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/micronesia-president-wesley-simina-military-capabilities-us-airport-upgrade-yap\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Simina says the US is \u2018well advanced\u2019 in plans for $400m airport upgrade in Yap, amid rising tensions with China in the regionThe US is considering military projects across the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) as it pushes ahead with plans f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3865,"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":[41,952,874,3085,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-micronesia","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209","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\/3865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63210,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63209\/revisions\/63210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}