{"id":18133,"date":"2014-07-04T20:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18133"},"modified":"2014-07-04T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:07:32","slug":"protesters-mark-philippine-american-friendship-day-with-call-to-junk-defence-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/04\/protesters-mark-philippine-american-friendship-day-with-call-to-junk-defence-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters mark Philippine American Friendship Day with call to junk defence pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18134\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/usembassymanilabuilding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18134\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/usembassymanilabuilding.jpg\" alt=\"US Embassy in Manila. Photo from usembassymanilavisa.com.\" width=\"900\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/usembassymanilabuilding.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/usembassymanilabuilding-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Embassy in Manila. Photo from usembassymanilavisa.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Protesters clashed Friday with police near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, where about 100 of them marched to mark\u00a0Philippine-American Friendship day with a call to junk a new defence pact allowing thousands of U.S. troops to be temporarily based in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A policeman and a protester were slightly hurt as demonstrators pushed their way toward the embassy and riot police shoved them back with truncheons and shields.<\/p>\n<p>Vencer Crisostomo, chairman of Anakbayan youth group, said the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement signed by the two allies in April was an \u201cunequal agreement\u201d that is a \u201csellout of our national sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the arrangement will not act as a deterrent but will instead worsen tensions between China and the\u00a0Philippines, which are embroiled in a territorial row in the South China Sea. \u201cIt\u2019s not really about friendship,\u201d said former Congressman Teddy Casino of the leftist New Patriotic Alliance. \u201cIt\u2019s about exploitation, it\u2019s about a neocolonial relationship.\u201d Casino urged the Supreme Court to declare the defence pact unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Protesters clashed Friday with police near the U.S. Embassy in Manila, where about 100 of them marched to mark\u00a0Philippine-American Friendship &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}