{"id":65517,"date":"2024-07-11T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/11\/fiji-security-deals-pacific-china-us-australia"},"modified":"2024-07-11T09:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T00:08:55","slug":"fiji-wrestles-with-need-for-outside-help-on-security-at-risk-to-its-own-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65517","title":{"rendered":"Fiji wrestles with need for outside help on security, at risk to its own sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country must \u2018maintain independence\u2019 in security partnerships, military commander warns, amid spread of deals struck with other countries<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/09\/pacific-islands-security-deals-australia-usa-china\">Mapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it means<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leading military, police and political figures in Fiji have raised concerns about<strong> <\/strong>striking deals with other countries such as China to boost security and policing, saying it could pose a risk to sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/09\/pacific-islands-security-deals-australia-usa-china\">Analysis by the Guardian found that Fiji has at least 12 significant agreements<\/a> with countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Most of the pacts and initiatives are with Australia, followed by New Zealand, the US and China.<strong> <\/strong>Fiji has struck or renewed policing and defence deals with Australia, New Zealand and the US in the past five years. Earlier this year, it opted to stick with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/15\/fiji-china-police-exchange-intelligence-deal\">controversial China policing deal<\/a> after a review.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/11\/fiji-security-deals-pacific-china-us-australia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country must \u2018maintain independence\u2019 in security partnerships, military commander warns, amid spread of deals struck with other countriesMapped: the vast network of security deals spanning the Pacific, and what it meansLeading military, police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"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":[41,436,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65517","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\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65518,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65517\/revisions\/65518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}