{"id":40855,"date":"2024-07-24T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40855"},"modified":"2024-07-24T03:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:30:32","slug":"beijing-and-manila-made-a-deal-in-the-south-china-sea-but-theyre-already-at-odds-over-what-was-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40855","title":{"rendered":"Beijing and Manila made a deal in the South China Sea. But they\u2019re already at odds over what was agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interim deal&nbsp;to smooth deliveries to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/03\/06\/asia\/philippines-china-south-china-sea-confrontation-intl-hnk-dst\/index.html\">Philippine marines marooned on a ship&nbsp;<\/a>at a hotly disputed reef in the South China Sea appears to be in doubt after Manila and Beijing gave opposing accounts over what they had agreed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fears of a conflict with global implications have risen in recent months following a series of increasingly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/08\/asia\/china-monster-coast-guard-ship-philippines-intl-hnk-ml\/index.html\">violent clashes between Chinese coast guard vessels&nbsp;<\/a>and Philippine ships at Second Thomas Shoal in the contested Spratly Islands, where Manila grounded a navy ship in 1999 to press its claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following de-escalation talks, Manila and Beijing both said they had reached a \u201cprovisional arrangement\u201d on the resupply of necessities to Philippine marines stationed aboard the BRP Sierra Madre \u2013 without either side conceding their maritime claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But analysts were skeptical about whether the temporary deal would hold after the two sides provided conflicting details of what their agreement entails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp; An interim deal&nbsp;to smooth deliveries to&nbsp;Philippine marines marooned on a ship&nbsp;at a hotly disputed reef in the South China Sea appears to be in doubt after Manila and Beijing gave opposing accounts over what they had agreed to. Fears of a conflict with global implications have risen in recent months following a series of increasingly&nbsp;violent clashes between Chinese coast guard vessels&nbsp;and Philippine ships at Second Thomas Shoal in the contested Spratly Islands, where Manila grounded a navy ship in 1999 to press its claims. Following de-escalation talks, Manila and Beijing both said they had reached a \u201cprovisional arrangement\u201d on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40857,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40855\/revisions\/40857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}