{"id":63755,"date":"2024-05-02T11:49:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/may\/02\/solomon-islands-new-pm-prime-minister-jeremiah-manele"},"modified":"2024-05-02T11:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T02:49:20","slug":"solomon-islands-chooses-china-friendly-ex-diplomat-jeremiah-manele-as-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63755","title":{"rendered":"Solomon Islands chooses China-friendly ex-diplomat Jeremiah Manele as new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move seen as continuation of Pacific country\u2019s policy of growing closer to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected as their new prime minister Jeremiah Manele, a former foreign minister who has pledged to continue the Pacific country\u2019s policy of embracing China.<\/p>\n<p>Manele said outside parliament on Thursday \u201cthe people have spoken\u201d and called for calm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/may\/02\/solomon-islands-new-pm-prime-minister-jeremiah-manele\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move seen as continuation of Pacific country\u2019s policy of growing closer to BeijingSolomon Islands lawmakers have elected as their new prime minister Jeremiah Manele, a former foreign minister who has pledged to continue the Pacific country\u2019s policy of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4221,"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":[41,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63755","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\/4221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63756,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63755\/revisions\/63756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}