{"id":33709,"date":"2023-05-04T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-south-china\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:21:29","slug":"china-says-south-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-south-china\/","title":{"rendered":"China says South China Sea should not be &#8216;hunting ground&#8217; for foreign forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211;     China firmly opposes any country citing bilateral treaties to interfere in the South China Sea and undermine China&#8217;s territorial interests and rights, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The South China Sea is home to all regional countries, and should not be a hunting ground for external forces,&#8221; ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular briefing when asked about a U.S. move to reaffirm its decades-old security alliance with the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Andrew Heavens)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/china-says-south-china\/chinese-foreign-ministry-spokesperson-mao-ning-attends-a-news-conference\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4307F-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4307F-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; China firmly opposes any country citing bilateral treaties to interfere in the South China Sea and undermine China&#8217;s territorial interests and rights, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. &#8220;The South China Sea is home to all regional countries, and should not be a hunting ground for external forces,&#8221; ministry spokesperson Mao Ning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ4307F-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33711,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33709\/revisions\/33711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}