{"id":3762,"date":"2015-06-05T18:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:10:37","slug":"chinas-reclamation-blitz-continues-unabated-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3762","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s reclamation blitz continues unabated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines said that Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea could lead to war. General Catapang, from the Philippine Army, said China&#8217;s construction work was causing concern &#8220;not only because it would deter freedom of navigation, but also due to its possibility of military purposes.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>China has built an airstrip on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands without consulting the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan who all claim the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines said that Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea could lead to war. General Catapang, from the Philippine Army, said China&#8217;s construction work was causing concern &#8220;not only because it would deter freedom of navigation, but also due to its possibility of military purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"1\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(Associated Press)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines said that Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea could lead to war. General Catapang, from the Philippine Army, said China&#8217;s construction work was causing concern &#8220;not only because it would deter freedom of navigation, but also due to its possibility of military purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}