{"id":52624,"date":"2023-02-15T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/philippines-president-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-laser-incident"},"modified":"2023-02-15T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:14:13","slug":"philippines-president-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-laser-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52624","title":{"rendered":"Philippines president summons Chinese ambassador over laser incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a \u2018military-grade laser light\u2019 at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew member<\/p>\n<p>Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos has summoned the Chinese ambassador to express serious concern over the \u201cincreasing frequency and intensity of actions\u201d by China against Philippine vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting came a day after the Philippines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/13\/chinese-ship-military-grade-laser-philippine-vessel\">accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a \u201cmilitary-grade laser light\u201d<\/a> at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew member and disrupting a mission in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/15\/philippines-president-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-laser-incident\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines accused a Chinese coastguard ship of directing a \u2018military-grade laser light\u2019 at one of its vessels, temporarily blinding a crew memberPhilippine president Ferdinand Marcos has summoned the Chinese ambassador to express serious concern &#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":[41,50,55,535,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","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\/52624","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=52624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52625,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52624\/revisions\/52625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}