{"id":58660,"date":"2023-09-24T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T05:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/24\/china-coast-guard-deploys-floating-barrier-to-cut-off-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T05:47:21","slug":"china-coast-guard-deploys-floating-barrier-to-cut-off-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58660","title":{"rendered":"China coast guard deploys \u2018floating barrier\u2019 to cut off disputed South China Sea shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines says it \u2018strongly condemns\u2019 move at Scarborough Shoal which prevents its fishing boats from gaining access<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has accused China\u2019s coast guard of installing a \u201cfloating barrier\u201d in a disputed area of the South China Sea, saying it prevented Filipinos from entering and fishing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Manila\u2019s coast guard and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources \u201cstrongly condemn\u201d China\u2019s installation of the barrier in part of the Scarborough Shoal, Commodore Jay Tarriela, a coast guard spokesperson, posted on the X social media platform, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/24\/china-coast-guard-deploys-floating-barrier-to-cut-off-disputed-south-china-sea-shoal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines says it \u2018strongly condemns\u2019 move at Scarborough Shoal which prevents its fishing boats from gaining accessThe Philippines has accused China\u2019s coast guard of installing a \u201cfloating barrier\u201d in a disputed area of the South China Sea, saying i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58660","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58660\/revisions\/58661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}