{"id":157906,"date":"2023-02-13T20:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/philippine-coast-guard-says-chinese-ship-aimed-laser-at-one-of-its-vessels"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:23:25","slug":"philippine-coast-guard-says-chinese-ship-aimed-laser-at-one-of-its-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/philippine-coast-guard-says-chinese-ship-aimed-laser-at-one-of-its-vessels","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Coast Guard says Chinese ship aimed laser at one of its vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/philippine-coast-guard-says-chinese-ship-aimed-laser-at-one-of-its-vessels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Coast Guard has accused a China Coast Guard ship of pointing a \u201cmilitary grade\u201d laser at some of its crew, temporarily blinding them, aboard a vessel in contested waters of the South China last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese ship also \u201cmade dangerous maneuvers\u201d in approaching within 150 yards (137 meters) of the Philippine vessel, the Philippine Coast Guard alleged in a statement posted on its official Facebook page,<strong> <\/strong>with photos purporting to show the laser\u2019s green beam.<\/p>\n<p>The incident allegedly occurred on February 6 near Ayungin Shoal, also known as Second Thomas Shoal, in the Spratly Islands chain, known in China as the Nansha Islands. China calls the shoal Renai Reef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Coast Guard has accused a China Coast Guard ship of pointing a \u201cmilitary grade\u201d laser at some of its crew, temporarily blinding them, aboard a vessel in contested waters of the South China last week. The Chinese ship also \u201cmade dangerous maneuvers\u201d in approaching within 150 yards (137 meters) of the Philippine vessel, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}