{"id":713,"date":"2026-04-13T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/92eb57c80ad968a3587dd2ba128a331b"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"fuel-crisis-opens-door-for-china-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=713","title":{"rendered":"Fuel crisis opens door for China in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fuel-crisis-opens-door-for-china-in-pacific.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Pacific Island nations grappling with fuel shortages that threaten power and basic services are likely to seek support from Australia, in a crisis that could also hand China a fresh opening to bolster its standing in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The region is home to some of the most fuel-exposed economies in the world, relying heavily on imported diesel with minimal storage and no domestic refining capacity.<\/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>Pacific Island nations grappling with fuel shortages that threaten power and basic services are likely to seek support from Australia, in a crisis that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"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\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}