{"id":52573,"date":"2023-02-14T00:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/chinese-ship-military-grade-laser-philippine-vessel"},"modified":"2023-02-14T00:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:24:51","slug":"chinese-ship-accused-of-using-military-grade-laser-against-philippine-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52573","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ship accused of using \u2018military-grade laser\u2019 against Philippine vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines coastguard says crew member temporarily blinded and mission disrupted in South China Sea<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a \u201cmilitary-grade laser light\u201d at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew member and disrupting a mission in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese ship shone a green laser light twice towards the boat as it sought to deliberately block a resupply mission, the Philippine coastguard said. It also accused the Chinese vessel of making \u201cdangerous manoeuvres by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel\u2019s starboard quarter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/chinese-ship-military-grade-laser-philippine-vessel\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines coastguard says crew member temporarily blinded and mission disrupted in South China SeaThe Philippines has accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a \u201cmilitary-grade laser light\u201d at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew mem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,50,55,535,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52573\/revisions\/52574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}