{"id":132982,"date":"2025-07-17T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132982"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:01:55","slug":"us-built-naval-facilities-may-strengthen-philippine-hand-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132982","title":{"rendered":"US-built naval facilities may strengthen Philippine hand in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US plan to build new naval facilities in the western Philippines could strengthen Manila\u2019s ability to \u201cconfront\u201d Chinese vessels in the South China Sea and even pave the way for shared use between the two allies in the event of future conflict, according to one observer.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, the United States said its navy would construct two maintenance facilities for smaller vessels at Oyster Bay and Quezon on Palawan, which is less than 260km (160km) from the Second Thomas Shoal, a major&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3318621\/us-built-naval-facilities-philippines-may-strengthen-manilas-hand-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US plan to build new naval facilities in the western Philippines could strengthen Manila\u2019s ability to \u201cconfront\u201d Chinese vessels in the South China&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132982"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}