{"id":152768,"date":"2026-06-11T03:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152768"},"modified":"2026-06-11T03:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:59:45","slug":"mystery-platform-china-says-it-was-carrying-out-research-at-scarborough-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152768","title":{"rendered":"Mystery platform? China says it was carrying out research at Scarborough Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina said it had carried out a scientific expedition in Scarborough Shoal, amid renewed confrontation with the Philippines over the disputed South China Sea atoll.<br \/>\nThe research mission \u2013 which began on May 20 \u2013 involved deploying a floating platform for environmental monitoring and sampling, the Chinese Academy of Sciences\u2019 South China Sea Institute of Oceanology said in a statement on Wednesday.<br \/>\nIt came after Manila lodged a formal diplomatic protest on Tuesday against what it called the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3356698\/mystery-platform-china-says-it-was-carrying-out-research-scarborough-shoal?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 PostChina said it had carried out a scientific expedition in Scarborough Shoal, amid renewed confrontation with the Philippines over the disputed South China Sea&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\/152768"}],"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=152768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}