{"id":16166,"date":"2012-07-23T12:29:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16166"},"modified":"2013-09-10T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:14:45","slug":"chinas-latest-ploy-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/chinas-latest-ploy-in-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s latest ploy in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To cement Chinese claims to the vast majority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/asia-pacific\/2012\/07\/201272361250479467.html\" target=\"_blank\">South China Sea<\/a>, a garrison is being established in the Paracel Islands:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China&#8217;s powerful Central Military Commission has approved the formal establishment of a military garrison for the disputed South China Sea, state media said, in a move which could further boost tensions in already fractious region.<\/p>\n<p>The Sansha garrison would be responsible for &#8220;national defence mobilisation &#8230; guarding the city and supporting local emergency rescue and disaster relief&#8221; and &#8220;carrying out military missions&#8221;, the Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>China has a substantial military presence in the South China Sea and the move is a further assertion of its sovereignty claims after it last month upped the administrative status of the seas to the level of a city, which it calls Sansha.<\/p>\n<p>Sansha city is based on what is known in English as Woody Island, part of the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/South-China-Sea-claims.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"South China Sea claims\" width=\"466\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/South-China-Sea-claims.gif 466w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/South-China-Sea-claims-150x112.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cement Chinese claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea, a garrison is being established in the Paracel Islands: China&#8217;s powerful Central Military Commission has approved the formal establishment of a military garrison for the disputed South China Sea, state media said, in a move which could further boost tensions in already [&hellip;]<\/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":[30,928,144,585],"class_list":["post-16166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-pacific","tag-navy","tag-southchinasea","tag-taiwan","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166","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=16166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22063,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16166\/revisions\/22063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}