{"id":63272,"date":"2024-04-12T09:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/joe-biden-philippines-attack-defence-meeting-japan-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:08:49","slug":"biden-pledges-to-defend-philippines-from-any-attack-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63272","title":{"rendered":"Biden pledges to defend Philippines from any attack in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president describes defence commitment to Philippines and Japan as \u2018ironclad\u2019 during first joint summit with Manila and Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has pledged to defend the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea, as he hosted the first joint summit with Manila and Tokyo amid growing tensions with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States\u2019 defence commitments to Japan and to the Philippines are ironclad,\u201d the US president said on Thursday as he met the Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos and Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/12\/joe-biden-philippines-attack-defence-meeting-japan-south-china-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president describes defence commitment to Philippines and Japan as \u2018ironclad\u2019 during first joint summit with Manila and TokyoJoe Biden has pledged to defend the Philippines from any attack in the South China Sea, as he hosted the first joint summit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,55,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","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\/63272","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63278,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63272\/revisions\/63278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}