{"id":75305,"date":"2017-10-11T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75305"},"modified":"2017-10-11T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T18:31:33","slug":"freedom-of-the-seas-uss-chafee-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75305","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of the Seas- USS Chafee in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/uss-chafee-e1507746097843.jpg\" alt=\"uss chafee\" \/><br \/>\nReuters<\/a> is reporting USS Chafee, a US Navy guided missile destroyer, sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Tuesday, prompting anger in Beijing. The operation is the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing\u2019s efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters. <\/p>\n<p>Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Chafee, conducted normal operations that challenged \u201cexcessive maritime claims\u201d near the Paracel Islands, over which China has territorial disputes with its neighbors.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cChina\u2019s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that a warship, two fighter jets and a helicopter had scrambled to warn the U.S. ship away, adding it had infringed upon China\u2019s sovereignty and security with its \u201cprovocation\u201d. China would further strengthen its naval and air defenses, the ministry said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand the U.S. side earnestly take steps to correct its mistakes,\u201d it added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>China\u2019s bluster is just writing checks they can\u2019t afford to cash, and they know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting USS Chafee, a US Navy guided missile destroyer, sailed near islands claimed by &hellip; <a title=\"Freedom of the Seas- USS Chafee in the South China Sea\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75305\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Freedom of the Seas- USS Chafee in the South China Sea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}