{"id":3663,"date":"2018-06-05T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2018-06-05T23:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:26:43","slug":"france-britain-to-sail-warships-in-contested-south-china-sea-to-challenge-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/05\/france-britain-to-sail-warships-in-contested-south-china-sea-to-challenge-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE BRITAIN TO SAIL WARSHIPS IN CONTESTED SOUTH CHINA SEA TO CHALLENGE BEIJING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/Royal_Navy_Type_23_Frigate_HMS_Somerset-e1528241101643.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-837\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/04\/Royal_Navy_Type_23_Frigate_HMS_Somerset-1024x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: SCMP<\/p>\n<p>By Liu Zhen<\/p>\n<p>The two countries, both permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, made the remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, echoing the latest US plan to ramp up its freedom of navigation operations to counter Beijing\u2019s militarisation in the region and its stance that territorial disputes should be a matter between China and its Asian neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>A French maritime task group, together with British helicopters and ships, will visit Singapore next week and then sail \u201cinto certain areas\u201d of the South China Sea, French armed forces minister Florence Parly told the annual defence forum.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2149062\/france-britain-sail-warships-contested-south-china-sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: SCMP By Liu Zhen The two countries, both permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, made the remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, echoing the latest US plan to ramp up its freedom of navigation operations to counter Beijing\u2019s militarisation in the region and its stance that territorial disputes should be a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/05\/france-britain-to-sail-warships-in-contested-south-china-sea-to-challenge-beijing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRANCE BRITAIN TO SAIL WARSHIPS IN CONTESTED SOUTH CHINA SEA TO CHALLENGE BEIJING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","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=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}