{"id":152573,"date":"2018-02-13T00:23:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152573"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:23:19","slug":"ph-eyes-china-other-non-western-countries-to-supply-helicopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/13\/ph-eyes-china-other-non-western-countries-to-supply-helicopters\/","title":{"rendered":"PH eyes China, other non-western countries to supply helicopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the failed helicopter deal between the Philippines and Canada, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has named countries that could replace Canada as supplier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at Korea, Russia, China, Turkey and other countries for our the medium-lift helicopters in lieu of the Bell 412,&#8221; Lorenzana told reporters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to cancel the purchase of the 16 helicopters was made after Canadian trade minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered to review the contract due to concerns that the choppers will be used to attack rebels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The defense secretary said that the formal letter canceling the contract is being prepared and will be signed this week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lorenzana admitted that the termination of the deal will delay the military\u2019s modernization program as this \u201cbrings the procurement process back to square one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 02\/ 13 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the failed helicopter deal between the Philippines and Canada, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has named countries that could replace &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":[12748,13286,13135],"class_list":["post-152573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-delfin-lorenzana","tag-francois-philippe-champagne","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152573","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=152573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152573\/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=152573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}