{"id":3732,"date":"2018-06-14T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2018-06-14T05:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:23:25","slug":"french-military-pushes-back-against-beijings-south-china-sea-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/14\/french-military-pushes-back-against-beijings-south-china-sea-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"FRENCH MILITARY PUSHES BACK AGAINST BEIJING\u2019S SOUTH CHINA SEA CLAIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3734\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-1024x425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-1024x425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-768x319.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-560x233.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-260x108.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170-160x66.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/06\/Dixmude_1170.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: South China Morning Post<\/p>\n<p>France is increasing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, sending warships through the South China Sea and planning air exercises to help counter China\u2019s military build-up in disputed waters.<\/p>\n<p>In late May, the French assault ship Dixmude and a frigate sailed through the disputed Spratly Islands and around a group of reefs that China has turned into islets, pushing back against Beijing\u2019s claim to own most of the resource-rich South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy-defence\/article\/2150407\/water-and-air-french-military-pushes-back-against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning Post France is increasing its military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, sending warships through the South China Sea and planning air exercises to help counter China\u2019s military build-up in disputed waters. In late May, the French assault ship Dixmude and a frigate sailed through the disputed Spratly Islands and around a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/14\/french-military-pushes-back-against-beijings-south-china-sea-claims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRENCH MILITARY PUSHES BACK AGAINST BEIJING\u2019S SOUTH CHINA SEA CLAIMS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","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\/3732","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=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}