{"id":134575,"date":"2025-08-15T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134575"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:00:12","slug":"beijing-seeks-to-deter-as-it-expands-presence-in-waters-near-philippines-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134575","title":{"rendered":"Beijing seeks to deter as it expands presence in waters near Philippines, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has extended its maritime presence to rarely patrolled waters, with two Chinese coastguard vessels spotted near the northernmost province of the Philippines last week, close to Taiwan.<br \/>\nThe Philippine Navy on Monday said the Chinese ships were seen \u201cmeandering\u201d in waters off Batanes on August 7, Philippine media reported.<br \/>\nBatanes is an archipelago located closer to southern Taiwan than to Manila and sits within the Bashi Channel \u2013 a critical maritime chokepoint that would have strategic&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3321943\/beijing-seeks-deter-it-expands-presence-waters-near-philippines-and-taiwan?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 PostChina has extended its maritime presence to rarely patrolled waters, with two Chinese coastguard vessels spotted near the northernmost province of the Philippines last&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\/134575"}],"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=134575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}