{"id":164518,"date":"2018-05-22T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=164518"},"modified":"2018-05-22T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T07:18:11","slug":"chinese-bomber-aircraft-not-a-cause-of-alarm-says-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/22\/chinese-bomber-aircraft-not-a-cause-of-alarm-says-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese bomber aircraft not a cause of alarm, says China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing calmed countries who are overly concerned of the presence of Chinese bomber aircraft on an island in the disputed South China sea.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said, the \u201cSouth China Sea Islands\u201d where the bomber aircraft landed and took off are \u201cChina\u2019s territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such activity, Lu added is a part of China\u2019s military training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relevant military activities are the normal training of the Chinese military and there is no need for other parties to over-interpret that&#8221;, Lu said.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Philippine government said that even though this move of China may not pose threat to the country\u2019s security for now, this should be viewed as a cause of concern.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, as for the United States, Lu also said that its concern over \u201cmilitarization\u201d is a \u201ctotally different thing from certain country&#8217;s threat to others by sending military vessels and aircraft to this region from thousands of miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 05\/ 22 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing calmed countries who are overly concerned of the presence of Chinese bomber aircraft on an island in the disputed &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-164518","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\/164518","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=164518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164518\/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=164518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}