{"id":138579,"date":"2025-10-17T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138579"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:15:28","slug":"china-begins-drills-near-scarborough-shoal-as-us-philippine-naval-exercises-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138579","title":{"rendered":"China begins drills near Scarborough Shoal as US-Philippine naval exercises end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTensions in the South China Sea remained elevated on Friday as China launched military exercises near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a move coinciding with the final day of a series of joint naval drills between the United States, the Philippines and other nations.<br \/>\nThe exercise \u2013 set to run from noon until 7pm \u2013 was taking place in a limited area in the waters southwest of the disputed shoal \u2013 known in China as Huangyan Island. The triangle-shaped formation of reefs and rocks controlled by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3329400\/china-begins-drills-near-scarborough-shoal-final-day-us-philippine-naval-exercises?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 PostTensions in the South China Sea remained elevated on Friday as China launched military exercises near the disputed Scarborough Shoal, a move coinciding with&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\/138579"}],"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=138579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}