{"id":63517,"date":"2024-04-22T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/us-philippines-military-drills-balikatan"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:53:52","slug":"beijing-warns-against-flexing-of-gunboat-muscles-as-us-and-philippines-begin-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63517","title":{"rendered":"Beijing warns against flexing of \u2018gunboat muscles\u2019 as US and Philippines begin military drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Balikatan, or \u2018shoulder-to-shoulder\u2019 drills will for the first time take place outside of the Philippines\u2019 territorial waters <\/p>\n<p>A Chinese military official has warned against countries flexing \u201cgunboat muscles\u201d, as the Philippines and US begin three weeks of unprecedented joint drills in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Balikatan, or \u201cshoulder-to-shoulder\u201d drills, began on Monday and will run until 10 May. For the first time the exercises will be held beyond the Philippines\u2019 territorial waters \u2013 12 nautical miles offshore \u2013 and will involve the Philippines coast guard (PCG) in an active role. They will also involve other countries in secondary or observer roles, including Australia and France.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/22\/us-philippines-military-drills-balikatan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Balikatan, or \u2018shoulder-to-shoulder\u2019 drills will for the first time take place outside of the Philippines\u2019 territorial waters A Chinese military official has warned against countries flexing \u201cgunboat muscles\u201d, as the Philippines and US begin&#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":[50,55,535,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/63517","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=63517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63518,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63517\/revisions\/63518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}