{"id":707,"date":"2026-05-04T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d55a3fa6bc1dbb0b744d9fd5edba7b9"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"australia-fiji-near-security-pact-as-china-scuppers-vanuatu-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Fiji near security pact as China scuppers Vanuatu deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/australia-fiji-near-security-pact-as-china-scuppers-vanuatu-deal.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Australia and Fiji are on the cusp of signing a sweeping security pact as the Albanese government moves to lock in Pacific partners and counter China\u2019s growing influence, but Beijing has pushed back, effectively scuppering a parallel deal with Vanuatu in a major blow to Canberra\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Pacific Island Affairs Minister Pat Conroy left for Fiji on Tuesday morning to iron out the final details of the Vuvale Union \u2013 a landmark security treaty that would potentially checkmate China\u2019s efforts to make its own defence deal with one of the Pacific\u2019s largest countries.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and Fiji are on the cusp of signing a sweeping security pact as the Albanese government moves to lock in Pacific partners and counter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}