{"id":66573,"date":"2024-09-05T14:14:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T05:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/south-china-sea-sabina-shoal-latest-updates-philippines"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T05:14:37","slug":"a-new-flashpoint-has-emerged-at-sabina-shoal-in-the-south-china-sea-and-a-new-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66573","title":{"rendered":"A new flashpoint has emerged at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea \u2013 and a new danger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts warn that the dispute over Sabina Shoal could lead to an even more drawn-out struggle between Manila and Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Hopes that tensions in the South China Sea might ease have been short lived. Just weeks after the Philippines and China struck a deal to try to stop dangerous confrontations at Second Thomas Shoal, a new flashpoint has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Over recent weeks, Manila has accused Chinese personnel of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/19\/china-philippine-ships-crash-sabina-shoal-south-china-sea\">ramming its boats<\/a>, blasting them with water canon and firing flares at its aircraft, with incidents often centred on a new location, an atoll called Sabina Shoal. It comes as tensions in the South China Sea, a strategically important waterway that links the Indian and Pacific Oceans, were already at their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/12\/south-china-sea-conflict-philippines-coast-guard\">highest in a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/05\/south-china-sea-sabina-shoal-latest-updates-philippines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts warn that the dispute over Sabina Shoal could lead to an even more drawn-out struggle between Manila and BeijingHopes that tensions in the South China Sea might ease have been short lived. Just weeks after the Philippines and China struck a de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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-66573","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\/66573","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573\/revisions\/66574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}