{"id":136216,"date":"2025-09-10T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136216"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:36:29","slug":"china-approves-nature-reserve-at-contested-scarborough-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=136216","title":{"rendered":"China approves nature reserve at contested Scarborough Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has approved the establishment of a nature reserve at the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory in the South China Sea, a decision that could escalate tensions with rival claimant the Philippines.<br \/>\nThe move comes months after China published a set of geographic coordinates for 16 base points around the feature, which it calls Huangyan Island and is known as the Panatag Shoal in the Philippines.<br \/>\nBeijing has controlled the sea feature since a stand-off with the Philippines in 2012.<br \/>\nThe&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3325047\/china-plans-nature-reserve-contested-scarborough-shoal?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 approved the establishment of a nature reserve at the Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory in the South China Sea, a decision that&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\/136216"}],"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=136216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}