{"id":9343,"date":"2021-05-17T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:30:12","slug":"us-ready-to-pull-troops-from-philippines-in-months-if-no-new-vfa-expertsouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9343","title":{"rendered":"US ready to pull troops from Philippines \u2018in months\u2019 if no new VFA: expertSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostSome 400 American soldiers and defence contractors deployed in the southern Philippines could be pulled out within months if Washington and Manila do not sign a new Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) by then.So heard an international conference titled \u201cThe Philippines Hedging Between Alliance or Appeasement: Can the Biden Administration Tip the Balance?\u201dThe US was \u201cready to withdraw\u201d the contingent of soldiers from the Mindanao island group, where they are involved in operations against Islamist\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3133802\/us-ready-pull-troops-philippines-months-if-no-new-vfa-expert\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostSome 400 American soldiers and defence contractors deployed in the southern Philippines could be pulled out within months if Washington and Manila do not sign a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9344,"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\/9343"}],"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=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}