{"id":74912,"date":"2025-10-27T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/australia-increasingly-alone-in-countering-chinas-influence-in-pacific-aid-report-shows"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:02:38","slug":"australia-increasingly-alone-in-countering-chinas-influence-in-pacific-aid-report-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74912","title":{"rendered":"Australia \u2018increasingly alone\u2019 in countering China\u2019s influence in Pacific, aid report shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US aid cuts hurt Washington\u2019s standing as China recasts itself as a \u2018steady\u2019 alternative partner, Lowy Institute report finds<\/p>\n<p>Australia is \u201cincreasingly alone\u201d in countering Beijing\u2019s influence in the Pacific and remains the largest foreign aid donor to the region as the US and other western partners cut funding, a new report shows.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map, released late on Sunday, tracks official development finance (ODF) from 2008 to 2023. It finds ODF to the Pacific fell by 16% in 2023 to US$3.6bn, marking a second consecutive year of record decline in development support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/27\/australia-increasingly-alone-in-countering-chinas-influence-in-pacific-aid-report-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US aid cuts hurt Washington\u2019s standing as China recasts itself as a \u2018steady\u2019 alternative partner, Lowy Institute report findsAustralia is \u201cincreasingly alone\u201d in countering Beijing\u2019s influence in the Pacific and remains the largest foreign aid donor to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,43,50,874,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74912","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74913,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74912\/revisions\/74913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}