{"id":3727,"date":"2018-06-14T04:51:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2018-06-14T04:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:51:53","slug":"how-beijing-is-winning-control-of-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/14\/how-beijing-is-winning-control-of-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW BEIJING IS WINNING CONTROL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/CHINESE-NAVY-e1528951839762.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-709\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/CHINESE-NAVY-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Asia Nikkei<\/p>\n<p>By Simon Roughneen<\/p>\n<p>Even by his outspoken standards, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s account of a conversation he had with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was startling.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting between the two leaders in Beijing in May 2017, the subject turned to whether the Philippines would seek to drill for oil in a part of the South China Sea claimed by both countries. Duterte said he was given a blunt warning by China\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Xi\u2019s] response to me [was], \u2018We\u2019re friends, we don\u2019t want to quarrel with you, we want to maintain the presence of warm relationship, but if you force the issue, we\u2019ll go to war,\u201d Duterte recounted.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, Duterte was asked for a response to news that China had landed long-range bombers on one of the South China Sea&#8217;s Paracel Islands &#8212; a milestone that suggests the People&#8217;s Liberation Army Air Force can easily make the short hop to most of Southeast Asia from its new airstrips. \u201cWhat\u2019s the point of questioning whether the planes there land or not?\u201d Duterte responded.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Cover-Story\/How-Beijing-is-winning-control-of-the-South-China-Sea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Asia Nikkei By Simon Roughneen Even by his outspoken standards, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s account of a conversation he had with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was startling. During a meeting between the two leaders in Beijing in May 2017, the subject turned to whether the Philippines would seek to drill for oil in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/14\/how-beijing-is-winning-control-of-the-south-china-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HOW BEIJING IS WINNING CONTROL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","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=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}