{"id":60915,"date":"2018-10-02T03:26:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/02\/chinese-warship-sails-within-yards-of-us-destroyer-in-unsafe-encounter\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T03:26:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:26:51","slug":"chinese-warship-sails-within-yards-of-us-destroyer-in-unsafe-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=60915","title":{"rendered":"Chinese warship sails within yards of US destroyer in &#039;unsafe&#039; encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese ship approached the USS Decatur in the South China Sea and conducted \u2018aggressive maneuvers\u2019, a US official saidA Chinese warship sailed within yards of an American destroyer \u2013 forcing it to change course \u2013 in an \u201cunsafe and unprofessional\u201d encounter as the US vessel was in contested waters in the South China Sea, according to a US official.The USS Decatur guided-missile destroyer was conducting what the military calls a \u201cfreedom of navigation operation\u201d on Sunday, when it passed within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson reefs in the remote Spratly Islands. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/01\/chinese-warship-american-destroyer-uss-decatur-unsafe-encounter\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese warship sails within yards of US destroyer in &#039;unsafe&#039; encounter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese ship approached the USS Decatur in the South China Sea and conducted \u2018aggressive maneuvers\u2019, a US official saidA Chinese warship sailed within yards of an American destroyer \u2013 forcing it to change course \u2013 in an \u201cunsafe and unprofessional\u201d encounter as the US vessel was in contested waters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}