{"id":6631,"date":"2023-12-04T17:29:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T17:29:41","slug":"china-us-tensions-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/04\/china-us-tensions-in-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"China \/US: Tensions in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><br \/>\nChina on Monday said the United States was responsible for \u201cdeliberate stirring up\u201d of tensions in the South China Sea, after a US warship navigated through waters claimed by Beijing.<br \/>\n\u201cOn December 4, littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords illegally entered the waters adjacent to Ren\u2019ai Reef in the Nansha region of China without the approval of the Chinese government,\u201d Southern Theatre Command spokesman Tian Junli said.<br \/>\nThe Second Thomas Shoal \u2013 referred to in Chinese as Ren\u2019ai Reef \u2013 is about 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the western Philippine Island of Palawan, and more than 1,000 kilometres from China\u2019s nearest major landmass, Hainan Island.<br \/>\nChina\u2019s military on Monday \u201cfollowed the entire operation\u201d, said Tian, adding that the \u201cdeliberate stirring up of the South China Sea by the United States is a serious infringement of China\u2019s sovereignty and security\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cTroops in the theatre of command maintain a high state of alert at all times, resolutely defending national sovereignty and security\u201d.<br \/>\nBeijing has ignored a 2016 ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that its claims to almost the entire sea have no legal basis.<br \/>\nChina has ramped up patrols of the waters and reefs in the South China Sea over the past decade or so and built artificial islands that it has militarized to reinforce its assertion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed China on Monday said the United States was responsible for \u201cdeliberate stirring up\u201d of tensions in the South China Sea, after a US warship navigated through waters claimed by Beijing. \u201cOn December 4, littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords illegally entered the waters adjacent to Ren\u2019ai Reef in the Nansha &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6633,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}