{"id":3961,"date":"2021-03-22T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2021-03-22T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T02:30:16","slug":"missiles-vaccines-and-china-bring-the-philippines-and-india-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Missiles, vaccines and China bring the Philippines and India closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Philippines and India, which share concerns about China\u2019s territorial assertiveness, are drawing closer together on the back of two very different means of defence: missiles and Covid-19 vaccines.On March 2, Manila signed an agreement with New Delhi to buy the Indian-made BrahMos PJ-10, the world\u2019s fastest cruise missile, which it plans to use to defend its coastal areas in the face of Chinese encroachment. In recent weeks, Shambhu Kumaran, New Delhi\u2019s ambassador to the Philippines, said\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3126230\/missiles-vaccines-and-china-bring-philippines-and-india-closer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe Philippines and India, which share concerns about China\u2019s territorial assertiveness, are drawing closer together on the back of two very different means of defence: missiles&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3962,"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\/3961"}],"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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}