{"id":100866,"date":"2017-05-03T04:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100866"},"modified":"2017-05-03T04:46:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T08:46:19","slug":"phl-urges-china-not-to-resort-to-threat-force-to-settle-wps-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/03\/phl-urges-china-not-to-resort-to-threat-force-to-settle-wps-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL urges China not to resort to threat, force to settle WPS dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90628\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-27.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90628\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-27.png\" alt=\"The Philippine government continues to urge China to refrain from the threat or use of force towards Filipino fishermen in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). (Photo: Yosomono\/ Flickr)\" width=\"586\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-27.png 586w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Capture-27-300x223.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine government continues to urge China to refrain from the threat or use of force towards Filipino fishermen in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea). (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/preetamrai\/1100370\/in\/photolist-6D6U-fAy9U7-nEEq27-ea7dD2-a6gSzr-cbCMSJ-dyxhMf-q6KLyA-bddcnR-quceBf-SbEteQ-bvfAfM-ePckr5-c3n5EA-7cseF5-5f6zWB-5cV4em-o4ZAWj-7srn6Y-eL3KrU-5UKGGf-4m8zSV-bE6WwN-5YsgGC-3QkWL7-rE8EJU-J6irGe-7Ssb2k-i4dQFc-58JLdy-7FHvkj-e7MPf2-4m8zPF-4mG8pL-RZ3Z6k-ooEScs-58JLko-GUuCRS-RNaUPn-7dnMRu-rTHqtu-6P6p5b-dBWXyo-4mcBtY-7dnNUE-htqyFD-htqVDG-4m8zFe-rNzyE-9bYVEi\">Yosomono\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippine government continues to urge China to refrain from the threat or use of force towards Filipino fishermen in the disputed West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).<\/p>\n<p>This, even as the Chinese side has informed the Philippines that investigations did not reveal any reported harassment incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have asked them to continue the investigations and to share the results with Philippine authorities,\u201d said acting Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Robespierre Bolivar in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that Chinese coast guard had harassed Filipino fishermen near the Union Bank in the West Philippine Sea last March.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have made competing claims over parts or all of South China Sea, including China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The Philippine government continues to urge China to refrain from the threat or use of force towards Filipino fishermen in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[3370],"class_list":["post-100866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-west-philippine-sea","mauthors-leslie-d-venzon","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}