{"id":1411743,"date":"2022-03-31T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411743"},"modified":"2022-03-31T00:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:30:02","slug":"micronesia-urges-solomons-islands-not-to-sign-china-security-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/micronesia-urges-solomons-islands-not-to-sign-china-security-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Micronesia urges Solomons Islands not to sign China security pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmicronesia-urges-solomons-islands-not-to-sign-china-security-pact%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>FILE PHOTO: Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 26, 2019. REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 31, 2022<\/p>\n<p>By Kirsty Needham<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY (Reuters) \u2013     The leader of the Federated States of Micronesia has urged the Solomon Islands not to sign a security pact with China, saying he had \u201cgrave security concerns\u201d and feared the Pacific could become embroiled in war between China and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister of the Solomon Islands, Manasseh Sogavare, said on Tuesday a security agreement with China was ready for signing but he did not disclose its details and he rejected concern by Australia, New Zealand and the United States that it would undermine regional security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy fear is that we \u2013 the Pacific Islands \u2013 would be at the epicentre of a future confrontation between these major powers,\u201d Micronesia\u2019s president, David Panuelo, wrote in a letter to the leader of the  Solomon Islands, according to a copy seen by Reuters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an impossible fear; it has happened before. Both the Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands were the battlegrounds during World War Two,\u201d Panuelo wrote, noting that the United States and China were increasingly at odds.<\/p>\n<p>Micronesia has defence ties with the United States as well as a diplomatic and economic relationship with China, he said. <\/p>\n<p>But he said the security pact Sogavare was preparing to sign was unprecedented, and could fuel fragmentation of the Pacific islands so they became tools of great power rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of climate change would be replaced by \u201call-too-real concerns about a war in our backyards\u201d, he wrote, pointing to the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian defence official said Australia\u2019s navy would change its patrol patterns if the Solomon Islands formed a military agreement with China, because of the close proximity to the Australian mainland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does change the calculus if Chinese naval vessels are operating from the Solomon Islands,\u201d Lieutenant General Greg Bilton, chief of joint operations, told reporters.    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Kirsty Needham; Editing by Robert Birsel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Federated States of Micronesia President David Panuelo addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}