{"id":4507,"date":"2021-03-27T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2021-03-27T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T04:00:10","slug":"spratly-islands-are-chinese-boats-baiting-fish-or-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=4507","title":{"rendered":"Spratly Islands: are Chinese boats baiting fish, or the Philippines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostA disagreement between China and the Philippines over 200-plus Chinese vessels\u2019 presence at a disputed South China Sea reef has sparked concerns Beijing is upping efforts to control the contested waters.Philippine Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has demanded the vessels leave Whitsun Reef, located in a shallow coral region in the Spratly Islands, about 320km (175 nautical miles) west of Palawan, in the Philippines.Manila has threatened to deploy additional navy ships to counter what it\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3127184\/spratly-islands-are-chinese-boats-baiting-fish-or-philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostA disagreement between China and the Philippines over 200-plus Chinese vessels\u2019 presence at a disputed South China Sea reef has sparked concerns Beijing is upping efforts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4508,"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\/4507"}],"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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}