{"id":191419,"date":"2025-10-05T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191419\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T11:18:16","slug":"australia-and-png-treaty-approved-despite-chinese-authoritarian-dictators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191419\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia and PNG treaty approved despite Chinese \u2018authoritarian dictators\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Australian army major general Mick Ryan discusses Australia and Papua New Guinea\u2019s formal defence alliance. <\/p>\n<p>The pact was meant to be signed last month, but was momentarily delayed due to China&#8217;s influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s an extraordinary alliance agreement with our very close friends in Papua New Guinea,\u201d Mr Ryan told Sky News Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPapua New Guinea don\u2019t want to be under the influence of the authoritarian old dictators in Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired Australian army major general Mick Ryan discusses Australia and Papua New Guinea\u2019s formal defence alliance. The pact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,29310,29308,44,1721,29309],"class_list":{"0":"post-191419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fb","11":"tag-msn","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-opinion","14":"tag-yt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}