{"id":1550440,"date":"2024-03-13T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2024-03-13T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:07:06","slug":"china-puts-squeeze-on-philippine-reefs-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/13\/china-puts-squeeze-on-philippine-reefs-in-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China Puts Squeeze on Philippine Reefs in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Thomas Shoal has emerged as a South China Sea flashpoint, as China smothers Philippine aspirations to protect its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This submerged reef 120 miles (194km) west of Palawan is where the Philippine Navy\u2019s BRP Sierra Madre was grounded in 1999 to reinforce its territorial claim. China has been harassing Philippine resupply [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/2024\/03\/china-puts-squeeze-on-philippine-reefs-in-south-china-sea\/\">China Puts Squeeze on Philippine Reefs in South China Sea<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/\">Asian Military Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asianmilitaryreview.com\/2024\/03\/china-puts-squeeze-on-philippine-reefs-in-south-china-sea\/\">Asian Military Review<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Thomas Shoal has emerged as a South China Sea flashpoint, as China smothers Philippine aspirations to protect its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This submerged reef 120 miles (194km) west of Palawan is where the Philippine Navy\u2019s BRP Sierra Madr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46081,1720,58123,190,3166,4627,52322,2994,74698,72896,44517,76035,9713,22846,16739,796,2212,2996,2186,7922,58142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550440"}],"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\/27206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550441,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550440\/revisions\/1550441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}