{"id":90536,"date":"2023-08-31T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=90536"},"modified":"2023-08-31T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T22:15:10","slug":"south-china-sea-showdown-at-second-thomas-shoal-may-be-hard-to-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=90536","title":{"rendered":"South China Sea: showdown at Second Thomas Shoal may be hard to avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe recent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine coastguard ships near the shoal raise questions about whether a more heated conflict can be avoided. Western powers committing to joint patrols of the area with the Philippines only ups the ante.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3232928\/south-china-sea-showdown-second-thomas-shoal-may-be-hard-avoid?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 PostThe recent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine coastguard ships near the shoal raise questions about whether a more heated conflict can be avoided. Western&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/90536"}],"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=90536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}