{"id":86518,"date":"2017-01-24T02:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86518"},"modified":"2017-01-24T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T07:22:50","slug":"white-house-says-u-s-will-defend-intl-territories-in-s-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/24\/white-house-says-u-s-will-defend-intl-territories-in-s-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"White House says U.S. will defend int&#8217;l territories in S. China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15743\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15743\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/oil-rig-south-china-sea-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said it would &#8220;defend international waters&#8221; in the South China Sea to counter Beijing&#8217;s island construction and military buildup in contested parts of the waterway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think areas in the South China Sea that are part of international waters and international activities, I think the U.S. is going to make sure that we protect our interests there,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said at a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a question of if those islands are in fact in international waters and not part of China proper, then yes, we&#8217;re going to make sure that we defend international territories from being taken over by one country,&#8221; Spicer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u2014The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said it would &#8220;defend international waters&#8221; in the South China Sea &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":15743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[9869,1039],"class_list":["post-86518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-donald-trump","tag-south-china-sea","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86518","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=86518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}