{"id":132,"date":"2014-03-21T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=132"},"modified":"2014-04-09T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T01:04:50","slug":"chinas-priorities-in-the-search-for-mh370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s priorities in the search for MH370"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article on The Diplomat about the China Coast Guard&#8217;s decision to prioritise its blockade of the Philippines garrison on the Second Thomas Shoal over the hunt for the missing airliner Flight MH370. I argue that, had the airliner crashed in the South China Sea, the decision not to redeploy those Coast Guard ships could have cost lives.\u00a0 <a title=\"Link to the original article on thediplomat.com\" href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/03\/chinas-national-priorities-in-hunt-for-mh370\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the original article.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Link to the story on the diplomat.com\" href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2014\/03\/chinas-national-priorities-in-hunt-for-mh370\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136 \" title=\"thediplomat_logo\" alt=\"thediplomat.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thediplomat_logo.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Link to the story on thediplomat.com<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on The Diplomat about the China Coast Guard&#8217;s decision to prioritise its blockade of the Philippines garrison on the Second Thomas Shoal over the hunt for the missing airliner Flight MH370. I argue that, had the airliner crashed in the South China Sea, the decision not to redeploy those Coast Guard ships could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/thediplomat_logo.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-28","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}