{"id":75898,"date":"2026-01-08T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/08\/china-australia-solomon-islands-influence"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:52:34","slug":"hard-to-say-whos-winning-china-and-australia-battle-for-influence-in-solomon-islands-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75898","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hard to say who\u2019s winning\u2019: China and Australia battle for influence in Solomon Islands policing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing and Canberra have adopted different strategies to support policing in the Pacific nation and observers are split on which is proving more effective<\/p>\n<p>At a church hall on the outskirts of Honiara, dozens of community leaders gathered for a training session organised by the Chinese police, alongside local Solomon Islands officers.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Ben Angoa, who has enthusiastically embraced the training, as well as other things China has provided: solar lighting, sewing machines, soccer balls, and even noodle-making lessons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/08\/china-australia-solomon-islands-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing and Canberra have adopted different strategies to support policing in the Pacific nation and observers are split on which is proving more effectiveAt a church hall on the outskirts of Honiara, dozens of community leaders gathered for a training&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5142,"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":[41,43,50,874,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-solomon-islands"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75898","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\/5142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75898\/revisions\/75899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}