{"id":73996,"date":"2025-09-08T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/pacific-islands-forum-2025-pif-leaders-meeting"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:35:58","slug":"pacific-islands-forum-climate-crisis-tops-agenda-as-china-exclusion-casts-shadow-over-leaders-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73996","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islands Forum: climate crisis tops agenda as China exclusion casts shadow over leaders meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Islands Forum 2025 faces bumpy start with China, the US and Taiwan uninvited from discussions, as Pacific leaders gather in Solomon Islands<\/p>\n<p>Climate change, rising seas and China\u2019s push for influence are set to dominate talks at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands-forum\">Pacific Islands Forum<\/a> in Solomon Islands this week, in a meeting already marked by geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The lead up to the forum has already been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/16\/tuvalu-considers-pulling-out-of-pacific-leaders-summit-amid-china-linked-power-struggle\"> fraught with tensions<\/a> after Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele excluded external partners \u2013 including China, the US and Taiwan \u2013 from discussions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/pacific-islands-forum-2025-pif-leaders-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Islands Forum 2025 faces bumpy start with China, the US and Taiwan uninvited from discussions, as Pacific leaders gather in Solomon IslandsClimate change, rising seas and China\u2019s push for influence are set to dominate talks at the Pacific Islan&#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":[41,43,50,2765,56,874,581,63,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-christopher-luxon","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-solomon-islands","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996","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=73996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73997,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73996\/revisions\/73997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}