{"id":349,"date":"2014-08-05T22:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T22:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-09-07T22:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T22:45:13","slug":"chinas-epic-fail-in-the-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Epic Fail in the South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nationalinterestlogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-350\" alt=\"nationalinterestlogo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nationalinterestlogo.png\" width=\"167\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By whatever metric you choose, China\u2019s recent oil-drilling adventure in the South China Sea was a disaster. No new oil will reach Chinese consumers, no new maritime territory has been gained and regional advantage has been handed to the United States. ASEAN solidarity has held firm and the positions of \u2018pro-Beijing\u2019 forces in crucial countries, particularly Vietnam, have been seriously weakened. China\u2019s foreign-policy making has proven to be incompetent. How did it all go so wrong? An article for the National Interest website <a title=\"Link to the article on the National Interest site\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/china's-epic-fail-the-south-china-sea-11019\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; By whatever metric you choose, China\u2019s recent oil-drilling adventure in the South China Sea was a disaster. No new oil will reach Chinese consumers, no new maritime territory has been gained and regional advantage has been handed to the United States. ASEAN solidarity has held firm and the positions of \u2018pro-Beijing\u2019 forces in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350,"comment_status":"closed","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\/nationalinterestlogo.png","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tOHn-5D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billhayton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}