{"id":20893,"date":"2020-07-23T13:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T04:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/south-china-sea-australian-warships-encounter-chinese-navy-in-disputed-waters"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T04:44:25","slug":"south-china-sea-australian-warships-encounter-chinese-navy-in-disputed-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20893","title":{"rendered":"South China Sea: Australian warships encounter Chinese navy in disputed waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra downplays the \u2018unplanned interactions\u2019 amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between two countries<\/p>\n<p>Australian warships have encountered China\u2019s navy in the disputed South China Sea at a time of heightened diplomatic tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian government has played down the encounter \u2013 believed to have occurred last week \u2013 saying on Thursday that \u201call interactions with foreign warships throughout the deployment were conducted in a safe and professional manner\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/23\/south-china-sea-australian-warships-encounter-chinese-navy-in-disputed-waters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra downplays the \u2018unplanned interactions\u2019 amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between two countriesAustralian warships have encountered China\u2019s navy in the disputed South China Sea at a time of heightened diplomatic tensions between the two countrie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"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":[41,43,645,1585,324,50,88,535,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-japan","category-south-china-sea","category-us-military"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20894,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20893\/revisions\/20894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}