{"id":148608,"date":"2026-03-26T09:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148608"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:30:09","slug":"how-much-junk-is-in-south-china-sea-beijing-flexes-surveillance-muscle-with-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148608","title":{"rendered":"How much junk is in South China Sea? Beijing flexes surveillance muscle with survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn estimated 93 million pieces of debris could be floating on the surface of the South China Sea, based on data collected by China in a projection of its marine monitoring and remote sensing prowess.<br \/>\nUsing technologies such as fixed-ship monitoring, underway surveys and satellite remote sensing, marine scientists and ecologists audited 26 spots in the central and southern parts of the disputed waters.<br \/>\nIn a report released this month, Beijing\u2019s Ministry of Ecology and Environment said it&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3347973\/how-much-junk-south-china-sea-beijing-flexes-surveillance-muscle-survey?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 PostAn estimated 93 million pieces of debris could be floating on the surface of the South China Sea, based on data collected by China&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\/148608"}],"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=148608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}