{"id":104926,"date":"2019-08-07T03:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T01:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/07\/papua-new-guinea-asks-china-to-refinance-its-national-debt-as-beijing-influence-grows\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T03:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T01:22:51","slug":"papua-new-guinea-asks-china-to-refinance-its-national-debt-as-beijing-influence-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=104926","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea asks China to refinance its national debt as Beijing influence grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The request to reschedule A$11.8bn of loans is a blow to Australia\u2019s hopes of countering Beijing\u2019s sway in the PacificPapua New Guinea has asked China to refinance its entire government debt in a blow to Australia\u2019s attempts to counter China\u2019s influence in the region.The request marks a \u201csignificant shift\u201d in regional politics and PNG\u2019s allegiances, according to Pacific experts. Australia has traditionally been the largest aid donor and most important ally of PNG, but in recent years ties between China and PNG have strengthened. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/07\/papua-new-guinea-asks-china-to-refinance-its-national-debt-as-beijing-influence-grows\" target=\"_blank\">Papua New Guinea asks China to refinance its national debt as Beijing influence grows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The request to reschedule A$11.8bn of loans is a blow to Australia\u2019s hopes of countering Beijing\u2019s sway in the PacificPapua New Guinea has asked China to refinance its entire government debt in a blow to Australia\u2019s attempts to counter China\u2019s influence in the region.The request marks a \u201csignificant shift\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}