{"id":151028,"date":"2026-05-08T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151028"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:36:42","slug":"why-is-a-chinese-research-ship-the-latest-flashpoint-with-philippines-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151028","title":{"rendered":"Why is a Chinese research ship the latest flashpoint with Philippines in South China Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing and Manila have traded barbs over a Chinese research vessel near a disputed South China Sea reef, with each warning of further countermeasures, a sign of lingering tensions between the two rival claimants.<br \/>\nIn a statement issued on Thursday night, China Coast Guard (CCG) spokesman Jiang Lue said a Philippine Coast Guard Islander aircraft had \u201cdeliberately approached and harassed\u201d China\u2019s Xiang Yang Hong 33 scientific research vessel on Wednesday while the ship was conducting a \u201clegitimate&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352920\/why-chinese-research-ship-latest-flashpoint-philippines-south-china-sea?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 and Manila have traded barbs over a Chinese research vessel near a disputed South China Sea reef, with each warning of further countermeasures,&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\/151028"}],"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=151028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}