{"id":4250,"date":"2014-03-14T03:43:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2014-03-14T03:43:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:43:15","slug":"philippines-rejects-chinas-demand-to-remove-grounded-ship-from-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/14\/philippines-rejects-chinas-demand-to-remove-grounded-ship-from-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines rejects China&#8217;s demand to remove grounded ship from disputed South China Sea shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-South_China_Sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4251\" alt=\"800px-South_China_Sea\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-South_China_Sea-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-South_China_Sea-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/800px-South_China_Sea.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines&#8211;The Philippines has rejected China&#8217;s demand to pull out a grounded navy ship from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>China has earlier blocked Philippine supplies from reaching the rusty ship at the Second Thomas Shoal, escalating the tensions in the area. The Philippines and the U.S. have protested Beijing&#8217;s action as provocative.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez says in a statement Friday that the ship was sent to the Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 to serve as a permanent government outpost in response to China&#8217;s occupation in 1995 of a nearby reef that is also claimed by the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>China claims virtually the entire South China Sea, resource-rich waters where neighbouring nations also have claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo MANILA, Philippines&#8211;The Philippines has rejected China&#8217;s demand to pull out a grounded navy ship from a disputed shoal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1039],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-south-china-sea","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}