{"id":15039,"date":"2012-05-13T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15039"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:19:40","slug":"china-increases-their-naval-presence-near-scarborough-shoal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/china-increases-their-naval-presence-near-scarborough-shoal\/","title":{"rendered":"China increases their naval presence near Scarborough Shoal"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted an item last month<\/a> about the stand-off between the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the Philippine ship BRP Gregorio del Pilar<\/em> (a former USCG cutter) in the Scarborough Shoal. Now there’s a report from Hong Kong’s largest English-language newspaper that China is sending another flotilla<\/a> to the area:<\/p>\n

China has sent five warships to the disputed Scarborough Shoal off the west coast of the Philippines with the warning that Beijing is ready for “any escalation” of the conflict.<\/p>\n

That comes as the outgunned Philippines looks to the United States for naval support in South China Sea territory that may be rich in energy sources.<\/p>\n

The five warships are said to be among the most advanced vessels in the Chinese fleet.<\/p>\n

They include ships with state-of-the-art systems against attack from the sky, while one is an assault ship that carries 20 amphibious tanks and specialized fighting teams among 800 personnel.<\/p>\n

Japanese surveillance aircraft saw the flotilla west of Okinawa and sailing south on Sunday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Without American support, the Philippine navy is completely out-classed by the PLAN (aside from a large number of in-shore patrol craft, there are only 14 combat-capable ships). And it’s not clear that the US will want to escalate tension at this moment, especially over something like the Scarborough Shoal.<\/p>\n

H\/T to David Akin<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted an item last month about the stand-off between the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the Philippine ship BRP Gregorio del Pilar (a former USCG cutter) in the Scarborough Shoal. Now there’s a report from Hong Kong’s largest English-language newspaper that China is sending another flotilla to the area: China has sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,683],"tags":[30,485,928],"class_list":["post-15039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-pacific","tag-navy","tag-philippines","tag-southchinasea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Uz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22065,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15039\/revisions\/22065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}