{"id":66438,"date":"2024-08-28T06:27:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/denial-of-china-a-stumbling-block-as-pacific-leaders-push-back-at-australian-police-training-plan"},"modified":"2024-08-28T15:33:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T06:33:06","slug":"denial-of-china-a-stumbling-block-as-pacific-leaders-push-back-at-australian-police-training-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66438","title":{"rendered":"Australia overcomes last-minute concerns to secure sweeping Pacific police training plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese says it is \u2018a Pacific-led initiative\u2019 that reflects the desire of neighbours to \u2018stand with each other\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/aug\/28\/australia-news-live-greens-adam-bandt-tax-reforms-election-anthony-albanese-tonga-cfmeu-protest-union-weather\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pacific island leaders have agreed to back a sweeping regional policing plan after Australia and other supporters overcame last-minute concerns the proposal was part of a geopolitical play to exclude China.<\/p>\n<p>But each Pacific nation will decide whether to contribute to the proposed new multi-national police unit, which will provide a rapid response to disasters or other major security challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s breaking news email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/28\/denial-of-china-a-stumbling-block-as-pacific-leaders-push-back-at-australian-police-training-plan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Albanese says it is \u2018a Pacific-led initiative\u2019 that reflects the desire of neighbours to \u2018stand with each other\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPacific island lead&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4391,"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":[41,43,645,50,874,581,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438","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\/4391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66438"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66456,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66438\/revisions\/66456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}