{"id":173202,"date":"2023-12-03T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T09:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/?p=529192"},"modified":"2023-12-03T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T09:51:30","slug":"philippines-coast-guard-says-its-monitoring-more-than-135-chinese-vessels-swarming-within-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/12\/03\/philippines-coast-guard-says-its-monitoring-more-than-135-chinese-vessels-swarming-within-the-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines coast guard says it\u2019s monitoring more than 135 Chinese vessels \u2018swarming\u2019 within the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) says more than 135 Chinese vessels are &#8220;swarming&#8221; at a reef off its coast, describing the boats&#8217; growing presence as &#8220;alarming&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Key points: Last month, Philippines coast guard says it counted 111 &#8220;Chinese maritime militia vessels&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Philippines coast guard says it counted 111 &#8220;Chinese maritime militia vessels&#8221; The PCG deployed two patrol boats to the area on Saturday, saying the number had increased to &#8220;more than 135&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The PCG deployed two patrol boats to the area on Saturday, saying the number had increased to &#8220;more than 135&#8221; Beijing claims most of the South China Sea, including waters and islands close to the shores of its neighbours<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese boats were &#8220;dispersed and scattered&#8221; within the boomerang-shaped Whitsun Reef, which the Philippines calls Julian Felipe Reef, around 320 kilometres west of Palawan Island, the coast guard said.&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinapulse.com\/\" title=\"ChinaPulse.com provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in China\" >ChinaPulse.com media intelligence and smart news insights monitoring platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines Coast Guard (PCG) says more than 135 Chinese vessels are \"swarming\" at a reef off its coast, describing the boats' growing presence as \"alarming\".<br \/>\nKey points: Last month, Philippines coast guard says it cou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,144,213,194,64],"tags":[10446,3472,8481,2370,10450,7003,2240,7571,10329,3839,3904],"class_list":["post-173202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing","category-china","category-china-news","category-news-chinese-law","category-taiwan","tag-brunei","tag-chinese","tag-hainan","tag-malaysia","tag-manila","tag-maritime","tag-military","tag-oil","tag-philippines","tag-south-china-sea","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173205,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173202\/revisions\/173205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}