{"id":2723,"date":"2014-02-24T00:49:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2014-08-29T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T16:03:37","slug":"filipino-fishermen-say-chinese-coast-guard-used-water-cannon-to-drive-them-from-disputed-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/24\/filipino-fishermen-say-chinese-coast-guard-used-water-cannon-to-drive-them-from-disputed-shoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino fishermen say Chinese coast guard used water cannon to drive them from disputed shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2724\" alt=\"800px-Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Scarborough_Shoal_Landsat.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines&#8211;The Philippine military chief says Filipino fishermen have reported that a Chinese coast guard vessel used a water cannon to drive them away from a disputed shoal.<\/p>\n<p>Gen. Emmanuel Bautista said Monday that the military is investigating the Jan. 27 incident at Scarborough Shoal, a rich fishing ground off the northwestern Philippines. The shoal came under China&#8217;s effective control after a standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships in the disputed area in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista says Philippine military forces adhere to a no-confrontation policy in the disputed areas but &#8220;will react to the best of our ability&#8221; if &#8220;armed violence is used against our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China, the Philippines and four other governments have been disputing ownership of resource-rich South China Sea territories for years, periodically reigniting tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo MANILA, Philippines&#8211;The Philippine military chief says Filipino fishermen have reported that a Chinese coast guard vessel used a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","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=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}