{"id":56969,"date":"2023-07-26T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/guam-fears-becoming-target-over-planned-15bn-us-defence-system"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:28:04","slug":"guam-fears-becoming-target-over-planned-1-5bn-us-defence-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56969","title":{"rendered":"Guam fears becoming \u2018target\u2019 over planned $1.5bn US defence system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed air and missile defences raise ire of residents who are also concerned about environmental impacts<\/p>\n<p>A planned missile defence system on the island of Guam could turn the US Pacific territory into a \u201ctarget,\u201d local residents have said, as opposition to the plans grow.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/3326875\/department-of-defense-releases-the-presidents-fiscal-year-2024-defense-budget\/\">invest $1.5bn<\/a> in a 360-degree, air and missile defence architecture on Guam. It aims to complete the system by 2027.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/guam-fears-becoming-target-over-planned-15bn-us-defence-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposed air and missile defences raise ire of residents who are also concerned about environmental impactsA planned missile defence system on the island of Guam could turn the US Pacific territory into a \u201ctarget,\u201d local residents have said, as opposit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3865,"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":[41,1272,2454,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-guam","category-us-defence-spending","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/56969","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\/3865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56970,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56969\/revisions\/56970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}