{"id":149505,"date":"2026-04-11T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149505"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:00:09","slug":"a-big-deal-the-military-drills-showing-tokyos-growing-focus-on-deterring-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149505","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A big deal\u2019: the military drills showing Tokyo\u2019s growing focus on deterring China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan\u2019s participation in annual US-Philippine military exercises is a \u201cbig deal\u201d, because it shows how Tokyo is taking a bigger role in regional groupings that could face off with China, according to analysts.<br \/>\nMore than 7,000 soldiers from the United States and Philippine armies are taking part in this year\u2019s Salaknib drill, a joint annual exercise that started on the north of Luzon island on Monday.<br \/>\nThe exercise aims to \u201cenhance combat readiness and interoperability between the two armies,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3349650\/big-deal-military-drills-showing-tokyos-growing-focus-deterring-china?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 PostJapan\u2019s participation in annual US-Philippine military exercises is a \u201cbig deal\u201d, because it shows how Tokyo is taking a bigger role in regional groupings&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\/149505"}],"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=149505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}