{"id":154881,"date":"2026-07-20T13:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154881"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:52:25","slug":"chinese-and-philippine-maritime-forces-clash-at-second-thomas-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=154881","title":{"rendered":"Chinese and Philippine maritime forces clash at Second Thomas Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing and Manila have exchanged fresh accusations over a clash in the South China Sea, just as China\u2019s top diplomat is due to attend the Asean foreign ministers\u2019 meeting in the Philippines.<br \/>\nOn social media late on Monday, the China Coast Guard said that at around 9am that morning as a small Chinese coastguard vessel was patrolling near Second Thomas Shoal, two rubber dinghies were launched \u201cillegally\u201d from the Philippine Navy\u2019s BRP Sierra Madre, a vessel grounded on the shoal by Manila about&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3361250\/chinese-and-philippine-maritime-forces-clash-second-thomas-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 PostBeijing and Manila have exchanged fresh accusations over a clash in the South China Sea, just as China\u2019s top diplomat is due to attend&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\/154881"}],"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=154881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}