{"id":10011,"date":"2021-01-19T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3118240\/east-china-sea-why-giant-chinese-territorial-marker-could-prove"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T01:00:06","slug":"east-china-sea-why-giant-chinese-territory-marker-may-be-leagues-above-old-buoy-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/east-china-sea-why-giant-chinese-territory-marker-may-be-leagues-above-old-buoy-network\/","title":{"rendered":"East China Sea: why giant Chinese territory marker may be leagues above old buoy network"},"content":{"rendered":"China has added a new giant buoy to a marine surveillance network used partly to strengthen the country\u2019s territorial claims in the disputed East China Sea \u2013 dubbed a \u201cbuoys\u2019 graveyard\u201d after several were lost or damaged through accidents and vandalism as several nations vie for regional influence.Deployed this month at an unspecified location in the East China Sea \u2013 some of which is also claimed by Japan and South Korea \u2013 the 15-metre-wide platform will fill a gap in a buoy network used to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3118240\/east-china-sea-why-giant-chinese-territorial-marker-could-prove\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has added a new giant buoy to a marine surveillance network used partly to strengthen the country\u2019s territorial claims in the disputed East China Sea \u2013 dubbed a \u201cbuoys\u2019 graveyard\u201d after several were lost or damaged through accidents and vandalism&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10012,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10011\/revisions\/10012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}