{"id":18099,"date":"2021-08-14T01:45:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2021-08-14T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T01:45:17","slug":"us-military-chinas-economy-philippines-plays-it-both-ways-with-dutertes-vfa-u-turnunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18099","title":{"rendered":"US military, China\u2019s economy: Philippines plays it both ways with Duterte\u2019s VFA U-turnUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIt was an anticlimactic and \u2013 to many minds \u2013 entirely predictable outcome: on July 30 the Philippines announced it would, after all, retain a long-standing military pact with the United States.During a meeting in Manila with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin, Philippine defence secretary Delfin Lorenzana said President Rodrigo Duterte had decided to renew, not scrap, the 23-year-old Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).It was a 180-degree turn for Duterte, who in an outburst in February last\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3144890\/us-military-chinas-economy-philippines-plays-it-both-ways?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostIt was an anticlimactic and \u2013 to many minds \u2013 entirely predictable outcome: on July 30 the Philippines announced it would,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099"}],"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=18099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}