{"id":8032,"date":"2019-08-29T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/why-is-china-hiding-its-oil-tankers-from-us-trackers"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T04:00:40","slug":"why-is-china-hiding-its-oil-tankers-from-us-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8032","title":{"rendered":"Why is China hiding its oil tankers from US trackers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Signs Beijing may be importing Iranian oil as Trump\u2019s two biggest foreign policy headaches converge<\/p>\n<p>In early June, a Chinese-owned supertanker abruptly went dark in the Indian Ocean, the tracking system signalling its course apparently deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>It was not the first ship to vanish from the monitors. The deactivation of transponders that generate a unique ID issued to ships by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has become increasingly familiar in recent weeks to the companies that track tankers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/29\/why-is-china-hiding-its-oil-tankers-from-us-trackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs Beijing may be importing Iranian oil as Trump\u2019s two biggest foreign policy headaches convergeIn early June, a Chinese-owned supertanker abruptly went dark in the Indian Ocean, the tracking system signalling its course apparently deactivated.It wa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[41,50,666,415,448,212,449,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-commodities","category-donald-trump","category-iran","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-oil","category-us-news","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\/8032","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}