{"id":22378,"date":"2026-05-27T16:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22378"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:44:29","slug":"takaichi-and-marcos-unite-chinas-worst-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22378","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi and Marcos Unite: China&#8217;s Worst Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime&nbsp;territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Takaichi and Marcos Unite: China&#039;s Worst Nightmare | Taiwan Talks EP841\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fkBLIBEsHE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China. <\/p>\n<p>China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[729,89,390,1915,314,420,259,1048],"class_list":["post-22378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-diplomacy","tag-east-asia","tag-international-relations","tag-japan","tag-military","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22379,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22378\/revisions\/22379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}