{"id":73478,"date":"2025-08-16T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/tuvalu-considers-pulling-out-of-pacific-leaders-summit-amid-china-linked-power-struggle"},"modified":"2025-08-16T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:30:45","slug":"tuvalu-considers-pulling-out-of-pacific-leaders-summit-amid-china-linked-power-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73478","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu considers pulling out of Pacific leaders\u2019 summit amid China-linked power struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Prime minister Feletei Teo says Tuvalu may withdraw from crucial meeting after key countries such as Taiwan were barred from attending<\/p>\n<p>Tuvalu\u2019s prime minister Feletei Teo said his country may pull out of the region\u2019s top political meeting next month, after host nation Solomon Islands moved to block all external partners \u2013 including China, US and Taiwan \u2013 from attending.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/07\/pacific-islands-forum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter\">Pacific Islands Forum<\/a> leaders meeting will be held in Honiara in September. On 7 August, Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/solomon-islands-blocks-us-china-taiwan-pacifics-top-political-meet-2025-08-07\/\">told parliament that no dialogue partners<\/a> would be invited to the annual gathering.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/tuvalu-considers-pulling-out-of-pacific-leaders-summit-amid-china-linked-power-struggle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Prime minister Feletei Teo says Tuvalu may withdraw from crucial meeting after key countries such as Taiwan were barred from attendingTuvalu\u2019s prime minister Feletei Teo said his country may pull out of the region\u2019s top political meeting nex&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"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":[41,50,874,581,3085,1439,63,74,563,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-palau","category-solomon-islands","category-taiwan","category-tuvalu","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73478","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\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73478\/revisions\/73479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}