{"id":53719,"date":"2023-03-23T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/china-says-it-drove-away-us-warship-uss-milius-after-illegally-entered-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T05:12:02","slug":"us-navy-rejects-china-claim-that-warship-illegally-entered-part-of-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53719","title":{"rendered":"US Navy rejects China claim that warship \u2018illegally\u2019 entered part of South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s military said guided-missile destroyer USS Milius intruded into China\u2019s territorial waters near the contested Paracel Islands<\/p>\n<p>The United States has denied Chinese claims that a US destroyer was driven out from waters around the contested Paracel Islands after it \u201cillegally\u201d entered the area in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, the Chinese military said the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius illegally intruded into China\u2019s territorial waters, without the approval of the government, undermining peace and stability in the busy waterway.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/china-says-it-drove-away-us-warship-uss-milius-after-illegally-entered-south-china-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s military said guided-missile destroyer USS Milius intruded into China\u2019s territorial waters near the contested Paracel IslandsThe United States has denied Chinese claims that a US destroyer was driven out from waters around the contested Paracel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,535,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-south-china-sea","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53719","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53720,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53719\/revisions\/53720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}