{"id":146514,"date":"2026-02-20T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146514"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:01:49","slug":"china-scrambles-fighters-to-confront-us-warplanes-based-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146514","title":{"rendered":"China scrambles fighters to confront US warplanes based in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS and Chinese fighter jets have engaged in a rare stand-off over the Yellow Sea, according to media reports in South Korea.<br \/>\nThis comes at a time when the United States has been trying to shift the focus of its troops stationed in the country away from North Korea to concentrate more on China.<br \/>\nThe incident on Wednesday involved around 10 US F-16s, which took off from Osan Air Base around 65km (40 miles) south of Seoul and flew west over the Yellow Sea as part of a training operation, according&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3344147\/china-scrambles-fighters-confront-us-warplanes-based-south-korea?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 PostUS and Chinese fighter jets have engaged in a rare stand-off over the Yellow Sea, according to media reports in South Korea. This comes&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\/146514"}],"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=146514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}