{"id":57367,"date":"2023-08-08T19:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/china-philippines-dispute-could-escalate-into-superpower-conflict-say-analysts"},"modified":"2023-08-08T19:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T10:23:42","slug":"china-philippines-dispute-could-escalate-into-superpower-conflict-say-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57367","title":{"rendered":"China-Philippines dispute could escalate into superpower conflict, say analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expert warns of \u2018significant escalatory potential\u2019 after Chinese coastguards used water cannon on Philippine boat<\/p>\n<p>A territorial dispute between China and the US-aligned Philippines is at increasingly high risk of escalating into a conflict involving the two superpowers, analysts have said, after Chinese coastguards used a water cannon on a Philippine boat.<\/p>\n<p>Global concern about China\u2019s naval activities is growing as the country expands and modernises its military, and shows increasing aggression in its claims over the South China Sea and Taiwan. Joint drills with Russia \u2013 during which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/06\/us-navy-warships-china-russia-naval-patrol-near-alaska\">a flotilla sailed near Alaska<\/a> this weekend \u2013 have also heightened concern over military coordination between Beijing and Moscow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/08\/china-philippines-dispute-could-escalate-into-superpower-conflict-say-analysts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert warns of \u2018significant escalatory potential\u2019 after Chinese coastguards used water cannon on Philippine boatA territorial dispute between China and the US-aligned Philippines is at increasingly high risk of escalating into a conflict involving the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,55,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/57367","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57368,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57367\/revisions\/57368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}