{"id":363004,"date":"2018-05-27T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T10:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-navy-warships-sail-near-south-china-sea-islands\/"},"modified":"2018-05-27T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T10:02:43","slug":"presstv-us-navy-warships-sail-near-south-china-sea-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-navy-warships-sail-near-south-china-sea-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US Navy warships sail near South China Sea islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two US Navy warships have sailed near South China Sea islands, which are claimed by China, according to two US officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the Antietam, a guided-missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands on Sunday, the officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>The islands are among a string of islets, reefs and shoals over which China has territorial disputes with its neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>The move is likely to anger Beijing as President Donald Trump is trying to maintain its continued cooperation on North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The military vessels conducted maneuvering operations near Tree, Lincoln, Triton and Woody islands in the Paracels, according to one of the officials.<\/p>\n<p>China has repeatedly warned the United States against sending warships to patrol the South China Sea. Washington claims such operations are meant to protect \u201cfreedom of navigation\u201d in the sea, a gateway for trillions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/27\/563049\/US-China-South-China-Sea\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US Navy warships have sailed near South China Sea islands, which are claimed by China, according to two US officials. The Higgins guided-missile destroyer and the Antietam, a guided-missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Islands on Sunday, the officials told Reuters, on condition of anonymity. The islands are among a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}