{"id":159522,"date":"2026-10-30T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159522"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:39:56","slug":"beijing-drills-water-cannons-and-drones-near-disputed-south-china-sea-shoals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159522","title":{"rendered":"Beijing drills water cannons and drones near disputed South China Sea shoals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s coastguard has carried out an exercise featuring water cannons and drones near two disputed reefs at the centre of its simmering South China Sea contention with the Philippines to prepare for \u201cforeign infringement\u201d, according to state media.<br \/>\nA China Coast Guard flotilla \u201crecently\u201d conducted \u201ccomprehensive maritime law-enforcement training\u201d in the waters around Second Thomas Shoal and Sabina Shoal, according to state broadcaster CCTV, which did not specify dates.<br \/>\nThe official television&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372764\/beijing-drills-water-cannons-and-drones-near-disputed-south-china-sea-shoals\" 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\u2019s coastguard has carried out an exercise featuring water cannons and drones near two disputed reefs at the centre of its simmering South China&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\/159522"}],"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=159522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}