{"id":50819,"date":"2024-04-12T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50819"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:47:24","slug":"biden-vows-ironclad-defense-of-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50819","title":{"rendered":"Biden vows &#8216;ironclad&#8217; defense of Philippines, Japan as China tensions mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Joe Biden made &#8220;ironclad&#8221; defense pledges to Japan and the Philippines on Thursday as he hosted his counterparts amid growing tensions with Beijing, whose actions the three leaders described as &#8220;dangerous and aggressive.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden cemented the United States&#8217; security commitments in the South China Sea, as repeated confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels have stoked fears of wider conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attack on Philippine aircraft, vessels or armed forces in the South China Sea would invoke our mutual defense treaty,&#8221; Biden said as he met Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden made &#8220;ironclad&#8221; defense pledges to Japan and the Philippines on Thursday as he hosted his counterparts amid growing tensions with Beijing, whose actions the three leaders described as &#8220;dangerous and aggressive.&#8221; Biden cemented the United States&#8217; security commitments in the South China Sea, as repeated confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1115,1116],"class_list":["post-50819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-biden-vows-ironclad-defense-of-philippines","tag-japan-as-china-tensions-mount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}