{"id":17722,"date":"2021-08-10T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17722"},"modified":"2021-08-10T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T23:00:29","slug":"japan-russia-islands-dispute-fears-tensions-are-dragging-in-us-and-china-as-jets-scramble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17722","title":{"rendered":"Japan-Russia islands dispute: fears tensions are dragging in US and China as jets scramble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan\u2019s fighter aircraft have been scrambled to respond to a sharp increase in Russian military planes approaching Japanese airspace north of Hokkaido in recent weeks, as tensions escalate over a disputed island chain.Experts say that Moscow\u2019s activities are meant not only as a message to Tokyo in its long-running territorial dispute over the islands \u2013 referred to as the Northern Territories by Japan and the Southern Kurils by Russia \u2013 but as a show of strength for a domestic audience.They also\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3144546\/japan-russia-islands-dispute-fears-tensions-are-dragging-us-and?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan\u2019s fighter aircraft have been scrambled to respond to a sharp increase in Russian military planes approaching Japanese airspace north of Hokkaido in recent&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17723,"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\/17722"}],"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=17722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}