{"id":65050,"date":"2024-06-19T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/philippines-china-clash-south-sea-navy-injuries-coast-guard-second-thomas-shoal-severe-thumb"},"modified":"2024-06-19T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T13:58:44","slug":"philippines-says-navy-personnel-injured-in-confrontation-with-china-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65050","title":{"rendered":"Philippines accuses Chinese coastguards of piracy after violent confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino sailor lost a thumb when coastguards rammed and boarded boats \u2018with knives and spears\u2019 in South China Sea<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines has accused China\u2019s coastguard of piracy in the disputed South China Sea after a violent confrontation in which it says its boats were rammed, punctured with knives and boarded by Chinese personnel.<\/p>\n<p>One Filipino sailor lost a thumb in the incident, according to the Philippines military, which said Chinese personnel also destroyed communication equipment, seized personal mobile phones and took away unopened cases that contained guns.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/19\/philippines-china-clash-south-sea-navy-injuries-coast-guard-second-thomas-shoal-severe-thumb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino sailor lost a thumb when coastguards rammed and boarded boats \u2018with knives and spears\u2019 in South China SeaThe Philippines has accused China\u2019s coastguard of piracy in the disputed South China Sea after a violent confrontation in which it says it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,55,535,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","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\/65050","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65071,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65050\/revisions\/65071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}