{"id":3246,"date":"2018-04-03T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T23:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2018-04-03T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T23:15:56","slug":"does-asean-want-the-us-navy-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/03\/does-asean-want-the-us-navy-in-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"DOES ASEAN WANT THE US NAVY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1049\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/07\/USS_Hopper_DDG_70_launches_a_Standard_Missile-3-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>In recent months it has become clear that the lull in Washington\u2019s confrontation with China in the South China Sea is over.<\/p>\n<p>After the election of President Donald Trump, concern over Beijing\u2019s expanding naval presence took a back seat to preoccupation with cooperation on North Korea. But the current US administration has once again stepped up rhetoric and naval operations, sending a message to China: Your neighbors in the region are smaller than you, but they are not alone.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s continued presence in the waters off Southeast Asia is predicated, in part, on Washington\u2019s insistence that it is needed, and wanted, to help ensure stability. But the question of whether member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) support US presence in the South China Sea may not have a black-and-white answer.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/asean-want-us-navy-south-china-sea\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Asia Times In recent months it has become clear that the lull in Washington\u2019s confrontation with China in the South China Sea is over. After the election of President Donald Trump, concern over Beijing\u2019s expanding naval presence took a back seat to preoccupation with cooperation on North Korea. But the current US administration has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/03\/does-asean-want-the-us-navy-in-the-south-china-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOES ASEAN WANT THE US NAVY IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1830],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-asean","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}