{"id":105922,"date":"2020-10-05T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105922"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:03:30","slug":"first-its-palau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105922","title":{"rendered":"First, It&#8217;s Palau&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86108\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-300x237.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-768x607.png 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended-421x333.png 421w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Pag-asa Island &#8211; China claims it as property<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you know, the Chinese government has decided it owns the South China Sea when it doesn&#8217;t and has been on a spree building artificial islands with bases for a few years now.\u00a0 And Palau, being one of China&#8217;s southern neighbors, doesn&#8217;t like the way the Chinese are looking at its land masses.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Palau is asking the USA to help them out with Chinese pinching and poking by providing the US military with room for a military base.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Palau wants the US to provide a more visible military presence in its land areas and surrounding waters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pT7dzlSfaA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pT7dzlSfaA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, the Chinese government has decided it owns the South China Sea when it &hellip; <a title=\"First, It&#8217;s Palau&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=105922\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First, It&#8217;s Palau&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105923,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922\/revisions\/105923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}