{"id":146025,"date":"2026-02-11T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146025"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:00:07","slug":"bully-vs-sovereignty-how-manila-and-beijing-are-sharpening-their-south-china-sea-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146025","title":{"rendered":"Bully vs sovereignty: how Manila and Beijing are sharpening their South China Sea messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe South China Sea continues to act as a lightning rod for competing claims among regional powers. In the final of a three-part series, Fan Chen investigates how Beijing is responding to the wake-up call on what is needed to win the narrative battle. For previous articles, click here and here.<br \/>\nA video shared by the Philippine coastguard gained wide attention in December. It showed a ship from its Chinese counterpart deploying water cannon towards a smaller vessel, but the footage was used to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3343130\/bully-vs-sovereignty-how-manila-and-beijing-are-sharpening-their-south-china-sea-messaging?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 South China Sea continues to act as a lightning rod for competing claims among regional powers. In the final of a three-part series,&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\/146025"}],"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=146025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}