{"id":154472,"date":"2026-07-12T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154472"},"modified":"2026-07-12T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:00:07","slug":"wu-shicun-on-why-beijing-will-not-rule-out-scarborough-shoal-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154472","title":{"rendered":"Wu Shicun on why Beijing will not rule out Scarborough Shoal construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWu Shicun is the founding president of China\u2019s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and chairman of the Huayang Centre for Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance. In this interview, the first in a series about the South China Sea dispute, he discusses ways Beijing can respond to rival claimants.<br \/>\nThis interview first appeared in SCMP Plus. For other interviews in the Open Questions series, click here.<br \/>\nWith Manila intensifying its \u201ctransparency\u201d campaign, how does China view the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3360243\/wu-shicun-why-beijing-will-not-rule-out-scarborough-shoal-construction?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 PostWu Shicun is the founding president of China\u2019s National Institute for South China Sea Studies and chairman of the Huayang Centre for Maritime Cooperation&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\/154472"}],"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=154472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}