{"id":38847,"date":"2013-12-13T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38847"},"modified":"2013-12-13T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:48:16","slug":"standoff-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38847","title":{"rendered":"Standoff in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jon Not To Be Confused With Jonn&#8221; sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/12\/13\/chinese-naval-vessel-tries-to-force-us-warship-to-stop-in-international-waters\/\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that the guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens was confronted by Chinese warships while it was in international waters of the South China Sea. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On December 5th, while lawfully operating in international waters in the South China Sea, USS Cowpens and a PLA Navy vessel had an encounter that required maneuvering to avoid a collision,\u201d a Navy official said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident underscores the need to ensure the highest standards of professional seamanship, including communications between vessels, to mitigate the risk of an unintended incident or mishap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A State Department official said the U.S. government issued protests to China in both Washington and Beijing in both diplomatic and military channels.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowpens was conducting surveillance of the Liaoning at the time. The carrier had recently sailed from the port of Qingdao on the northern Chinese coast into the South China Sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, this administration wanted to shift their military focus from the Middle East to the Pacific Rim. Now they&#8217;ve got it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jon Not To Be Confused With Jonn&#8221; sends us a link to Fox News which reports &hellip; <a title=\"Standoff in the South China Sea\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38847\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standoff in the South China Sea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}