{"id":156749,"date":"2024-04-28T06:45:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=156749"},"modified":"2024-04-28T06:45:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T06:45:21","slug":"balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=156749","title":{"rendered":"Balikatan drills focus on potential flashpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSANDS of Filipino and American troops kicked off joint Balikatan military exercises on Monday, concentrating in the northern and western parts of the nation, near the potential flashpoints of the South China Sea and Taiwan.Contrary to international opinion, China claims almost the entire waterway, a key route for international trade&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2024\/04\/23\/news\/national\/balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints\/1942887\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOUSANDS of Filipino and American troops kicked off joint Balikatan military exercises on Monday, concentrating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints.jpg",1200,798,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-1024x681.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints.jpg",1200,798,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints.jpg",1200,798,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-1024x681.jpg",1024,681,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/156749-balikatan-drills-focus-on-potential-flashpoints-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}