{"id":138759,"date":"2017-12-13T01:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T06:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138759"},"modified":"2017-12-13T01:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T06:49:24","slug":"duterte-wont-risk-filipinos-lives-over-sandbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/duterte-wont-risk-filipinos-lives-over-sandbar\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte won\u2019t risk Filipino\u2019s lives over sandbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte chose to take a step back on the recent issue of China allegedly seizing Sandy Cay near Pag-asa Island, putting emphasis on distancing from a fight with China that, according to him, could cause the lives of Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should I defend a sandbar and kill the Filipinos because of a sandbar?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why there are Chinese Coast Guards in Sandy Cay, the president answered that they are just patrolling the disputed waters because the Philippines and China are friends.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the president is confident that China won\u2019t snatch Islands in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cChina assured me that they will not build anything there. They called me up, the ambassador; we will assure you that we are not building anywhere there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/ 23 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Rodrigo Duterte chose to take a step back on the recent issue of China allegedly seizing Sandy Cay near &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138759","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=138759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}