{"id":153332,"date":"2015-05-22T13:39:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=153332"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:40:50","slug":"pentagon-sending-jets-warships-near-china-islands-next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/pentagon-sending-jets-warships-near-china-islands-next-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: Sending jets, warships near China islands \u2018next step\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>The Pentagon says the United States is ready to deploy surveillance aircraft and naval ships to test China\u2019s territorial claims over man-made islands in the South China Sea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That would be the next step,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>US officials say American surveillance planes and naval vessels have not yet ventured within 12 nautical miles of the man-made islands&#8211;the standard territorial zone around natural land.<\/p>\n<p>Washington does not recognize China\u2019s sovereignty in the disputed areas and is weighing sending surveillance aircraft and warships to test its territorial claims.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s announcement came as an American television crew picked up a tense radio exchange between a US surveillance plane and Chinese forces in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese navy dispatcher reportedly made eight demands Wednesday that the US Air Force P8-A Poseidon aircraft leave the airspace over the artificial islands, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/05\/22\/412260\/US-sending-aircraft-warships-Chinese-disputed-islands-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon says the United States is ready to deploy surveillance aircraft and naval ships to test China\u2019s territorial claims over man-made islands in the South China Sea. &#8220;That would be the next step,&#8221; Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steven Warren told reporters on Thursday. US officials say American surveillance planes and naval vessels have not yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}