{"id":7284,"date":"2019-08-17T03:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-insulting-scott-morrison-rift-pacific-countries"},"modified":"2019-08-17T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T04:33:21","slug":"fiji-pm-accuses-scott-morrison-of-insulting-and-alienating-pacific-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7284","title":{"rendered":"Fiji PM accuses Scott Morrison of \u2018insulting\u2019 and alienating Pacific leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Frank Bainimarama says Australian leader is pushing nations towards China<\/p>\n<p>Scott Morrison has been accused of causing an extraordinary rift between Australia and Pacific countries by the prime minister of Fiji, who said the Australian prime minister\u2019s insulting behaviour while at the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu would push nations closer to China.<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with Guardian Australia after the conclusion of the PIF, Frank Bainimarama, the prime minister of Fiji and a political heavyweight in the region, said Morrison\u2019s approach during the leaders\u2019 retreat on Thursday was \u201cvery insulting and condescending\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/fiji-pm-frank-bainimarama-insulting-scott-morrison-rift-pacific-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Frank Bainimarama says Australian leader is pushing nations towards ChinaScott Morrison has been accused of causing an extraordinary rift between Australia and Pacific countries by the prime minister of Fiji, who said the Australian prime mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"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":[41,43,324,436,581,386,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-scott-morrison","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284","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\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7284"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7284\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}