{"id":12823,"date":"2021-06-23T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12823"},"modified":"2021-06-23T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T21:00:14","slug":"pacific-islands-fear-fallout-as-us-and-china-jostle-for-geopolitical-influence-in-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12823","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islands fear fallout as US and China jostle for geopolitical influence in region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Papua New Guinea politician Dame Meg Taylor ended her term as leader of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in March, she sounded an alarm to the 18 nations and territories, including Australia and New Zealand, that are part of the political grouping.<\/p>\n<p>The islands, lobbed into a geographic area the US calls the \u201cIndo-Pacific\u201d, were \u201call of a sudden [being] defined by people who are great military powers, who have no consideration for the peoples in the region, or our governments\u201d, she said\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3138486\/pacific-islands-fear-fallout-us-and-china-jostle-geopolitical?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Papua New Guinea politician Dame Meg Taylor ended her term as leader of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in March, she sounded an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}