{"id":27484,"date":"2021-11-20T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2021-11-20T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T01:00:24","slug":"the-manchurian-candidate-why-chinas-interest-in-the-philippine-election-is-under-scrutiny-as-duterte-prepares-to-leave-officeunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=27484","title":{"rendered":"The Manchurian candidate: why China\u2019s interest in the Philippine election is under scrutiny as Duterte prepares to leave officeUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the last year of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s term winds down, the list of candidates to replace him after next May\u2019s election poses a troubling question for the Philippines: might one of them be a \u201cManchurian candidate\u201d?That term, for a politician used as a puppet by a foreign or hostile power, was made famous by a 1959 fictional Cold War thriller in which the son of an American political family returns from service in the Korean war having been brainwashed by Chinese and Russian communists\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3156732\/manchurian-candidate-concerns-rise-over-puppet-politicians?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the last year of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s term winds down, the list of candidates to replace him after next May\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":27485,"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\/27484"}],"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=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}