{"id":3671,"date":"2018-06-06T20:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2018-06-06T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T20:06:27","slug":"beijing-may-have-removed-missiles-from-disputed-south-china-sea-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/06\/beijing-may-have-removed-missiles-from-disputed-south-china-sea-island\/","title":{"rendered":"BEIJING MAY HAVE REMOVED MISSILES FROM DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3672\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES-560x429.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES-260x199.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/CHINESE-ISLANDS-BASES-160x123.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: CNN<\/p>\n<p>By James Griffiths,<\/p>\n<p>Beijing may have removed missile systems from a disputed island in the South China Sea even as it accused the US of sending &#8220;attacking weapons&#8221; to the region.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of a number of missile systems to the Spratly and Paracel Islands in May sparked an angry rebuke from Washington about Beijing&#8217;s &#8220;militarization&#8221; of the sea, almost all of which is claimed by China.<\/p>\n<p>It was followed by a B-52 bomber flyover of the Spratlys this week, which the US said was part of a &#8220;routine training mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/06\/asia\/south-china-sea-missiles-satellite-intl\/index.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CNN By James Griffiths, Beijing may have removed missile systems from a disputed island in the South China Sea even as it accused the US of sending &#8220;attacking weapons&#8221; to the region. The deployment of a number of missile systems to the Spratly and Paracel Islands in May sparked an angry rebuke from Washington&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/06\/beijing-may-have-removed-missiles-from-disputed-south-china-sea-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BEIJING MAY HAVE REMOVED MISSILES FROM DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLAND<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","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\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}