{"id":1213285,"date":"2023-09-15T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=294092"},"modified":"2023-09-15T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T06:00:30","slug":"the-south-china-seas-resource-wars-its-not-only-about-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/09\/15\/the-south-china-seas-resource-wars-its-not-only-about-fossil-fuels\/","title":{"rendered":"The South China Sea\u2019s Resource Wars: It\u2019s Not Only About Fossil Fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size \u2014\u00a01.3 million square miles\u00a0\u2014 the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resources may one day lead to environmental collapse. While the threat of a devastating military conflict between  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/the-south-china-seas-resource-wars-its-not-only-about-fossil-fuels\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/09\/15\/the-south-china-seas-resource-wars-its-not-only-about-fossil-fuels\/\">The South China Sea\u2019s Resource Wars: It&#8217;s Not Only About Fossil Fuels<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size \u2014\u00a01.3 million square miles\u00a0\u2014 the South China Sea has become a microcosm of the geopolitical tensions between East and West, where territorial struggles over abundant natural resour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213285"}],"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\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215109,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213285\/revisions\/1215109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}