{"id":73432,"date":"2025-08-14T02:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/us-warships-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:00:03","slug":"us-warships-patrol-south-china-sea-after-two-chinese-ships-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73432","title":{"rendered":"US warships patrol South China Sea after two Chinese ships collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed near Scarborough Shoal after Chinese tried to drive away Philippine vessel<\/p>\n<p>The US has briefly deployed two warships in a disputed South China Sea shoal where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/12\/chinese-ships-crash-warship-coast-guard-south-china-sea\">two Chinese ships collided earlier in the week<\/a> while trying to drive away a smaller Philippine ship in a high-seas accident that raised alarms about maritime safety.<\/p>\n<p>Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also lay overlapping claims in the contested waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/13\/us-warships-south-china-sea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USS Higgins and USS Cincinnati sailed near Scarborough Shoal after Chinese tried to drive away Philippine vesselThe US has briefly deployed two warships in a disputed South China Sea shoal where two Chinese ships collided earlier in the week while tryi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"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":[41,2986,50,70,55,535,74,47,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-brunei","category-china","category-malaysia","category-philippines","category-south-china-sea","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73432\/revisions\/73433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}