{"id":71895,"date":"2025-05-21T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/21\/winston-peters-new-zealand-deputy-pm-pacific-china-influence"},"modified":"2025-05-21T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:03:05","slug":"pacific-must-not-become-a-military-zone-amid-rise-of-china-new-zealands-deputy-pm-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71895","title":{"rendered":"Pacific must not become a \u2018military zone\u2019 amid rise of China, New Zealand\u2019s deputy PM warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Winston Peters says the world faces the \u2018most uncertain time\u2019 in 80 years ahead of talks with Australia&#8217;s foreign minister<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific must be protected from becoming a military zone amid China\u2019s growing push for influence in the region, New Zealand\u2019s top diplomat Winston Peters has warned ahead of a meeting with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong.<\/p>\n<p>Peters, who is New Zealand\u2019s deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister, told the Guardian that his country has a good relationship with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/21\/winston-peters-new-zealand-deputy-pm-pacific-china-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Winston Peters says the world faces the \u2018most uncertain time\u2019 in 80 years ahead of talks with Australia&#8217;s foreign ministerThe Pacific must be protected from becoming a military zone amid China\u2019s growing push for influ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,43,56,933,874,944],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-pacific-islands","category-winston-peters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71895","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71896,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71895\/revisions\/71896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}