{"id":370127,"date":"2020-08-27T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T02:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370127"},"modified":"2020-08-27T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T03:50:56","slug":"us-sanctions-chinese-firms-for-construction-projects-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-sanctions-chinese-firms-for-construction-projects-in-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Chinese firms for construction projects in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Chinese companies and nationals who have taken up &#8220;illegal&#8221; construction projects in the South China Sea as part of Beijing&#8217;s &#8220;expansionist agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>China claims sovereignty over most part of the resource-rich South China Sea, rejecting counter claims of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the Department of State will begin imposing visa restrictions&#8221; on Chinese individuals responsible for, or complicity in the large-scale reclamation, construction, or militarisation of disputed outposts in the South China Sea, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. <\/p>\n<p>Individuals coercing Southeast Asian claimants to inhibit their access to offshore resources will also be under the visa restrictions, Pompeo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Chinese companies and nationals who have taken up &#8220;illegal&#8221; construction projects in the South China Sea as part of Beijing&#8217;s &#8220;expansionist agenda.&#8221; China claims sovereignty over most part of the resource-rich South China Sea, rejecting counter claims of the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. &#8220;Today, the Department of State will begin imposing visa restrictions&#8221; on Chinese individuals responsible for, or complicity in the large-scale reclamation, construction, or militarisation of disputed outposts in the South China Sea, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. Individuals coercing Southeast Asian claimants to inhibit their access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}