{"id":66387,"date":"2024-08-24T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/24\/philippines-accuses-beijing-of-dangerously-firing-flares-near-its-aircraft-in-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2024-08-24T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T06:35:57","slug":"philippines-accuses-beijing-of-dangerously-firing-flares-near-its-aircraft-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66387","title":{"rendered":"Philippines accuses Beijing of \u2018dangerously\u2019 firing flares near its aircraft in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manila alleges \u2018harassment\u2019 in past week, including deploying flares just 15 metres away from its aircraft in latest confrontation on strategic waterway<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/30\/south-china-sea-map-visual-guide-key-shoals-reefs-islands\">South China Sea: a visual guide to the key shoals, reefs and islands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Philippine government accused China on Saturday of firing flares just metres away from one of its aircraft as it flew patrols over the South China Sea in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese fighter jet \u201cengaged in irresponsible and dangerous manoeuvres\u201d on 19 August as the plane from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) made a \u201cmaritime domain awareness flight\u201d near Scarborough Shoal, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/24\/philippines-accuses-beijing-of-dangerously-firing-flares-near-its-aircraft-in-south-china-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manila alleges \u2018harassment\u2019 in past week, including deploying flares just 15 metres away from its aircraft in latest confrontation on strategic waterwaySouth China Sea: a visual guide to the key shoals, reefs and islandsThe Philippine government accuse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":485,"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-66387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66387","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\/485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66387\/revisions\/66388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}