{"id":74563,"date":"2025-10-02T09:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/vanuatu-open-to-signing-deal-with-australia-but-will-not-be-subject-to-bullying-from-larger-countries"},"modified":"2025-10-02T09:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:25:57","slug":"vanuatu-open-to-signing-deal-with-australia-but-will-not-be-subject-to-bullying-from-larger-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74563","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu open to signing deal with Australia but will not be subject to \u2018bullying\u2019 from larger countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country moves to deepen policing ties with China as Australia continues negotiations on Nakamal agreement, which was not signed last month as hoped<\/p>\n<p>Vanuatu remains open to signing a wide-ranging deal with Australia but must assert its sovereignty and will not be subject to pressure or \u201cbullying\u201d from larger countries, the country\u2019s internal affairs minister, Andrew Napuat, said.<\/p>\n<p>Australia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/sep\/09\/albanese-went-to-vanuatu-to-sign-a-500m-agreement-but-leaves-empty-handed-thanks-to-concerns-about-china\">failed to seal the $500m Nakamal agreement<\/a> in Port Vila last month amid concerns from Vanuatu that it would block other countries providing infrastructure funding. Weeks later, Vanuatu said it planned to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to deepen policing cooperation with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/02\/vanuatu-open-to-signing-deal-with-australia-but-will-not-be-subject-to-bullying-from-larger-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country moves to deepen policing ties with China as Australia continues negotiations on Nakamal agreement, which was not signed last month as hopedVanuatu remains open to signing a wide-ranging deal with Australia but must assert its sovereignty and wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5004,"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":[41,43,645,50,874,581,282,323,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","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\/74563","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\/5004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563\/revisions\/74564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}