{"id":150298,"date":"2026-04-24T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150298"},"modified":"2026-04-24T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:29:21","slug":"china-stages-navy-drill-as-us-and-philippines-embark-on-balikatan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150298","title":{"rendered":"China stages navy drill as US and Philippines embark on Balikatan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has held naval exercises in waters east of a Philippine island near Taiwan in an apparent response to nearby annual military drills hosted by Manila and Washington.<br \/>\nThe People\u2019s Liberation Army Southern Theatre Command said on Friday that a naval fleet had \u201crecently\u201d held drills in waters east of Luzon, the northernmost major island of the Philippines.<br \/>\nThe drills were \u201ca necessary action taken in response to the current regional situation\u201d, said the command, which oversees the South&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3351353\/china-stages-navy-drill-us-and-philippines-embark-balikatan-2026?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 PostBeijing has held naval exercises in waters east of a Philippine island near Taiwan in an apparent response to nearby annual military drills hosted&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\/150298"}],"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=150298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}