{"id":63408,"date":"2024-04-18T09:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T00:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/18\/china-warning-balikatan-exercise-2024-philippines-us-military-drills"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T00:26:45","slug":"china-sounds-warning-after-philippines-and-us-announce-most-expansive-military-drills-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63408","title":{"rendered":"China sounds warning after Philippines and US announce most expansive military drills yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exercises starting on Monday will be the first to be held outside Philippines\u2019 territorial waters, and come amid a rise in tensions in the South China Sea<\/p>\n<p>Philippine and US forces will carry out their first ever military exercises outside the south-east Asian country\u2019s territorial waters, in a move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has said will only lead to greater insecurity in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Balikatan or \u201cshoulder-to-shoulder\u201d drills \u2013 which will run from 22 April to 10 May \u2013 will involve 16,700 soldiers simulating retaking enemy-occupied islands in areas facing Taiwan and the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/18\/china-warning-balikatan-exercise-2024-philippines-us-military-drills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercises starting on Monday will be the first to be held outside Philippines\u2019 territorial waters, and come amid a rise in tensions in the South China SeaPhilippine and US forces will carry out their first ever military exercises outside the south-east&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4204,"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":[41,50,55,535,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408","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\/4204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63408\/revisions\/63409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}