{"id":145788,"date":"2026-02-08T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145788"},"modified":"2026-02-08T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:00:12","slug":"first-china-philippines-talks-in-over-a-year-is-a-south-china-sea-thaw-in-the-offing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145788","title":{"rendered":"First China-Philippines talks in over a year: is a South China Sea thaw in the offing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA war of words between Chinese diplomats and Philippine politicians over the disputed South China Sea has prompted calls in Manila to declare the Chinese ambassador persona non grata \u2013 the second such call in three years.<br \/>\nWhile Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr has rejected the idea, the latest spike in tensions led to officials of the two countries breaking a year-long hiatus and sitting down for talks in Cebu.<br \/>\nAccording to the Chinese foreign ministry, the talks on January 29 were&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3342485\/first-china-philippines-talks-over-year-south-china-sea-thaw-offing?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 PostA war of words between Chinese diplomats and Philippine politicians over the disputed South China Sea has prompted calls in Manila to declare the&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\/145788"}],"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=145788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}