{"id":164355,"date":"2018-05-21T03:25:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=164355"},"modified":"2018-05-21T03:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:26:04","slug":"chinas-bombers-not-a-threat-says-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/21\/chinas-bombers-not-a-threat-says-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s bombers not a threat, says Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s bomber aircraft landing on the islands of South China Sea brings concern to the country, but this should not be seen as a threat, Malaca\u00f1ang said\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">China\u2019s move is \u201cnot considered to be a threat to the Philippines\u2019s security right now because of the newfound friendship of the two countries,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said, adding that President Rodrigo Duterte views it the same way as he does and \u201csees no immediate threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">But despite such statement, Roque said that \u201ceven if we don\u2019t feel that China is a security threat to us, for\u00a0as long as their weapons are there, there could be a mistake of the discharge in these weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added, &#8220;Any threat of the use of force in one of the world\u2019s busiest sea lanes which happens also to be the sea lane where our oil supply passes through and bulk of our exports and imports pass through is a reason for concern to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roque stressed that the Philippine government continues to respond diplomatically to any action that could risk the country\u2019s territories in the disputed region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 05\/ 21 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s bomber aircraft landing on the islands of South China Sea brings concern to the country, but this should not &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-164355","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\/164355","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=164355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164355\/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=164355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}