{"id":47742,"date":"2022-05-29T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=47742"},"modified":"2022-05-29T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T17:30:22","slug":"what-is-driving-chinas-assertiveness-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=47742","title":{"rendered":"What is driving China\u2019s \u2018assertiveness\u2019 in the South China Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTo assume China is driven solely by claims to resources is to ignore both the historical vulnerability of the region \u2013 particularly to Western colonial powers \u2013 and the current strategic struggle with the US. Beijing\u2019s desire to control the waters cannot be delinked from this broader context.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/united-states\/article\/3179392\/what-driving-chinas-assertiveness-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTo assume China is driven solely by claims to resources is to ignore both the historical vulnerability of the region \u2013 particularly to Western&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":47743,"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\/47742"}],"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=47742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}