{"id":172077,"date":"2018-07-19T03:38:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172077"},"modified":"2018-07-19T03:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:38:43","slug":"more-troops-sent-to-wps-to-strengthen-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/19\/more-troops-sent-to-wps-to-strengthen-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"More troops sent to WPS to strengthen claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine military has sent additional troops to the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to strengthen the country\u2019s occupation in its claimed territories.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-State of the Nation Address forum held at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC)\u00a0on Wednesday, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon said, \u201cTo maintain effective occupation over Philippine islands and features, our Armed Forces (AFP) deployed more personnel to these areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from positioning more troops there, Esperon said that the Department of National Defense (DND) has also started the rehabilitation of the islands\u2019 structures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction of the beaching ramp and repair of runway in Pag-asa Island are now ongoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Esperon stressed that some of their efforts to resolve the issue in the Philippine-claimed waters are the constant high-level visits and meetings between both the\u00a0Philippines and China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These efforts seek to improve the ability to manage developments in the WPS so as not to escalate tensions, to widen the access of Filipino artisanal fishermen in Scarborough Shoal, and to protect our environment and marine ecosystem,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 07\/ 19 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine military has sent additional troops to the West Philippine Sea (WPS) to strengthen the country\u2019s occupation in its &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-172077","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\/172077","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=172077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172077\/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=172077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}