{"id":17267,"date":"2018-10-04T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17267"},"modified":"2018-10-04T02:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:23:20","slug":"photos-show-how-close-chinese-warship-came-to-colliding-with-us-destroyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17267","title":{"rendered":"Photos show how close Chinese warship came to colliding with US destroyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Aerial photos taken by the US Navy show just how close a US Navy ship came to colliding with a Chinese warship that had challenged the US vessel&#8217;s presence in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur was performing a &#8220;freedom of navigation&#8221; operation on Sunday, sailing close to Chinese-claimed reefs in the Spratly Islands, when it was approached by a Chinese destroyer, the Lanzhou.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/01\/politics\/china-us-warship-unsafe-encounter\/index.html\">US Navy said in a statement Monday that the two ships came within 45 yards (41 meters) of each other<\/a>, as the Chinese warship &#8220;conducted a series of increasingly aggressive maneuvers accompanied by warnings for the Decatur to depart the area.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Aerial photos taken by the US Navy show just how close a US Navy ship came to colliding with a Chinese warship that had challenged the US vessel&#8217;s presence in the South China Sea.The guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur was performing a &#8220;freedom of navigation&#8221; operation on Sunday, sailing close to Chinese-claimed reefs in the Spratly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}