{"id":105922,"date":"2020-10-05T14:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105922"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:03:30","slug":"first-its-palau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=105922","title":{"rendered":"First, It&#8217;s Palau&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_86108\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86108\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-86108\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png?resize=300%2C237&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png?resize=768%2C607&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png?resize=421%2C333&amp;ssl=1 421w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Map-of-Pag-asa-Island-showing-the-north-south-east-and-west-shores-with-recommended.png?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Map of Pag-asa Island &#8211; China claims it as property<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As you know, the Chinese government has decided it owns the South China Sea when it doesn&#8217;t and has been on a spree building artificial islands with bases for a few years now.\u00a0 And Palau, being one of China&#8217;s southern neighbors, doesn&#8217;t like the way the Chinese are looking at its land masses.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Palau is asking the USA to help them out with Chinese pinching and poking by providing the US military with room for a military base.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, Palau wants the US to provide a more visible military presence in its land areas and surrounding waters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pT7dzlSfaA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5pT7dzlSfaA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, the Chinese government has decided it owns the South China Sea when it doesn&#8217;t and has been on a spree building artificial islands with bases for a few years now.\u00a0 And Palau, being one of China&#8217;s southern neighbors, doesn&#8217;t like the way the Chinese are looking at its land masses. Therefore, Palau [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ryq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}