{"id":165671,"date":"2018-05-31T03:08:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T07:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=165671"},"modified":"2018-05-31T03:08:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T07:08:35","slug":"chinese-forces-harass-anew-philippine-troops-in-wps-says-alejano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/31\/chinese-forces-harass-anew-philippine-troops-in-wps-says-alejano\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese forces harass anew Philippine troops in WPS, says Alejano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano bared the recent challenge encountered by the Philippine military forces in the West Philippine Sea, where they were harassed anew by Chinese forces.<\/p>\n<p>Alejano said that according to his informant from the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA): &#8220;On May 11, during a reprovisioning mission for our troops in Ayungin, LS507 of the Philippine Navy was challenged and harassed by the Coast Guard and the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayungin Shoal is an area located 105 nautical miles from Palawan and is part of the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone.<\/p>\n<p>Alejano narrated that a chopper of China\u2019s PLAN hovered in a close and dangerous distance to a rubber boat the\u00a0Philippine Navy launched to resupply BRP Sierra Madre,\u00a0causing seawater splash to enter the said boat.<\/p>\n<p>The congressman said that China&#8217;s action should be viewed as a clear threat to the country\u2019s security forces as this was not the first time that Chinese forces harassed Philippine troops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 05\/ 31 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magdalo party-list Representative Gary Alejano bared the recent challenge encountered by the Philippine military forces in the West Philippine Sea, &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-165671","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\/165671","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=165671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165671\/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=165671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}