{"id":20530,"date":"2020-07-14T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/south-china-sea-us-says-beijings-claims-to-disputed-area-completely-unlawful"},"modified":"2020-07-14T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T10:00:37","slug":"south-china-sea-us-says-beijings-claims-to-disputed-area-completely-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20530","title":{"rendered":"South China Sea: Beijing calls US &#8216;troublemaker&#8217; after criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China says it never sought to \u2018build an empire\u2019 in reply to Pompeo\u2019s claim offshore development is unlawful<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has called the US a \u201ctroublemaker\u201d after strong criticism from Washington of its claims in the South China Sea and announced sanctions on Lockheed Martin over arms sales to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese foreign ministry said the country had never sought to \u201cbuild an empire\u201d in the disputed waters, hitting back at comments by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, that \u201cthe world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/14\/south-china-sea-us-says-beijings-claims-to-disputed-area-completely-unlawful\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says it never sought to \u2018build an empire\u2019 in reply to Pompeo\u2019s claim offshore development is unlawfulBeijing has called the US a \u201ctroublemaker\u201d after strong criticism from Washington of its claims in the South China Sea and announced sanctions on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,472,535,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-mike-pompeo","category-south-china-sea","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20530\/revisions\/20542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}