{"id":15438,"date":"2022-06-16T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:31:42","slug":"is-china-following-japans-prewar-path-in-the-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/is-china-following-japans-prewar-path-in-the-south-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China following Japan&rsquo;s prewar path in the South Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-header\" data-trackable=\"article\" data-version=\"14\" data-paywall-state=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-header__container\">\n<div class=\"article-header__head\">\n<p class=\"article-header__sub-title\" data-trackable=\"subhead\"><span class=\"ezstring-field\">Beijing&rsquo;s growing clout in strategic region irks U.S., Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article\" data-trackable=\"article\" data-version=\"14\" data-test=\"article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div data-trackable=\"image-main\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/__origami\/service\/image\/v2\/images\/raw\/https%253A%252F%252Fs3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%252Fpsh-ex-ftnikkei-3937bb4%252Fimages%252F7%252F4%252F5%252F7%252F40837547-1-eng-GB%252Fchina%2520pacific%2520islands%2520.jpg?width=700&amp;fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"article__caption\" data-trackable=\"caption\">Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks on a recent island-hopping\u00a0trip to the South Pacific. Beijing wants to boost its influence in the region through infrastructure projects such as one near a sea wall in Fiji, left.\u00a0(Source photos by AP)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__details\"><span class=\"article__author\" data-trackable=\"byline\"><span class=\"ezstring-field\">HIROYUKI AKITA, Nikkei commentator<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__details\"><span class=\"timestamp timestamp--no-icon article__date timestamp--full\" data-trackable=\"timestamp\" data-test=\"timestamp\" data-time-utc=\"June 15, 2022 03:07 UTC\" data-updated=\"false\" data-show-full=\"true\"><time class=\"timestamp__time\">June 15, 2022<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>TOKYO &#8212; China&rsquo;s drive to boost its influence in the South Pacific has set alarm bells ringing in major Western powers and revived uncomfortable memories of events in the strategically important region during the run up to World War II.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read the entire article on the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Comment\/Is-China-following-Japan-s-prewar-path-in-the-South-Pacific\">Nikkei Asia<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing&rsquo;s growing clout in strategic region irks U.S., Australia Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks on a recent island-hopping\u00a0trip to the South Pacific. Beijing wants to boost its influence in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-room","tag-153"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpolicyconference.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}