{"id":52304,"date":"2023-02-02T15:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/us-seals-crucial-military-deal-with-the-philippines-close-to-china-flashpoints"},"modified":"2023-02-02T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:51:59","slug":"us-seals-crucial-military-deal-with-the-philippines-close-to-china-flashpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52304","title":{"rendered":"US seals crucial military deal with the Philippines close to China \u2018flashpoints\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deal expands Washington\u2019s access to military bases close to Taiwan and the South China Sea<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has granted the United States expanded access to its military bases, greatly enhancing Washington\u2019s presence in the region at a time of growing concern about Chinese aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Washington would be given access to four additional military bases in \u201cstrategic areas of the country\u201d, without specifying the locations, the Philippines\u2019 Department of National Defence said on Thursday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/02\/us-seals-crucial-military-deal-with-the-philippines-close-to-china-flashpoints\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deal expands Washington\u2019s access to military bases close to Taiwan and the South China SeaThe Philippines has granted the United States expanded access to its military bases, greatly enhancing Washington\u2019s presence in the region at a time of growing co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,50,55,535,45,473,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","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\/52304","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52315,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52304\/revisions\/52315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}