{"id":154594,"date":"2026-07-14T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154594"},"modified":"2026-07-14T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:00:07","slug":"how-beijings-islands-of-control-are-reshaping-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154594","title":{"rendered":"How Beijing\u2019s islands of control are reshaping the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA decade after Beijing rejected the ruling by The Hague\u2019s Permanent Court of Arbitration on its South China Sea claims, rival nations continue to manoeuvre for control. In the third of our series on the anniversary, Laura Zhou looks at why the gap between international law and geopolitical reality on the water has never been wider.<br \/>\nOn a scorching morning this summer, more than a hundred Chinese tourists stepped ashore on Tree Island in the hotly contested Paracels.<br \/>\nThey were greeted not only by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3360496\/how-beijings-islands-control-are-reshaping-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 PostA decade after Beijing rejected the ruling by The Hague\u2019s Permanent Court of Arbitration on its South China Sea claims, rival nations continue to&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\/154594"}],"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=154594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}