{"id":66445,"date":"2024-08-28T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/aug\/28\/tongan-pm-sovaleni-and-australian-pm-albanese-give-details-of-pacific-police-training-plan-video"},"modified":"2024-08-28T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:07:40","slug":"tongan-pm-sovaleni-and-australian-pm-albanese-give-details-of-pacific-police-training-plan-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66445","title":{"rendered":"Tongan PM Sovaleni and Australian PM Albanese give details of Pacific police training plan \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tongan prime minister, Hu\u2019akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, spoke at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nuku&#8217;alofa, Tonga, after Pacific island leaders agreed to back a regional policing plan that will see the establishment of police training centres of excellence. Australia overcame last-minute concerns that the plan, described as \u2018a Pacific-led initiative\u2019 by Albanese, was part of a geopolitical play to exclude China. &#8216;This is something that has arisen from the Pacific family, to look after the Pacific family,&#8217; Albanese said<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/gdnaustraliasubs\">Subscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\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\">Australia overcomes last minute concerns to secure sweeping Pacific police training plan<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/aug\/28\/tongan-pm-sovaleni-and-australian-pm-albanese-give-details-of-pacific-police-training-plan-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tongan prime minister, Hu\u2019akavemeiliku Siaosi Sovaleni, and the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, spoke at the Pacific Islands Forum in Nuku&#8217;alofa, Tonga, after Pacific island leaders agreed to back a regional policing plan that will see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[961,43,645,324,50,581,280,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-tonga","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66446,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445\/revisions\/66446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}