{"id":7955,"date":"2019-08-28T12:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/papua-new-guinea-debt-crisis-pm-accused-of-veering-between-australia-and-china"},"modified":"2019-08-28T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T03:13:36","slug":"papua-new-guinea-debt-crisis-pm-accused-of-veering-between-australia-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7955","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea debt crisis: PM accused of veering between Australia and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM Peter O\u2019Neill says successor James Marape delivering only \u2018attractive rhetoric\u2019 after being banished from government benches<\/p>\n<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s former prime minister Peter O\u2019Neill has hit out at his successor, saying he was \u201ctaking PNG backwards\u201d and condemning him for allegedly flip-flopping on asking Australia and China for assistance with PNG\u2019s debt.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill\u2019s attack on James Marape came after he was ousted from the government benches by Marape on Tuesday. Marape asked O\u2019Neill\u2019s party to join the opposition because of the party\u2019s \u201cnegative influence\u201d and due to its \u201cattempts to undermine this government\u201d, the latest instance of political tumult in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/papua-new-guinea-debt-crisis-pm-accused-of-veering-between-australia-and-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM Peter O\u2019Neill says successor James Marape delivering only \u2018attractive rhetoric\u2019 after being banished from government benchesPapua New Guinea\u2019s former prime minister Peter O\u2019Neill has hit out at his successor, saying he was \u201ctaking PNG backwar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7956,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions\/7956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}