{"id":25736,"date":"2025-02-15T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/china-accuses-australia-of-deliberate-provocation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T09:14:00","slug":"china-accuses-australia-of-deliberate-provocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/china-accuses-australia-of-deliberate-provocation\/","title":{"rendered":"China accuses Australia of deliberate provocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/4781800.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The incident, in which Australia&#8217;s defence minister said a Chinese PLA J-16 jet released flares within 30 m (100 feet) of an RAAF aircraft, comes amid ties strained by navy and air force interactions that Australia has called dangerous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s comments came a day after Australia flagged &#8220;unsafe and unprofessional&#8221; actions by the jet towards the patrol which it said was on routine surveillance in international waters on Tuesday, an account Beijing disputes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Australia deliberately infringed upon China&#8217;s rights in the South China Sea and provoked China, yet it was the villain who complained first, spreading false narratives,&#8221; said Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for the Chinese defence ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang accused the Australian military aircraft of ignoring the main routes in the busy waterway, saying it &#8220;broke into the homes&#8221; of others, and adding that China&#8217;s response was reasonable and a legitimate defence of sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/228362\/China-accuses-Australia-of-deliberate-provocation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident, in which Australia&#8217;s defence minister said a Chinese PLA J-16 jet released flares within 30 m (100 feet) of an RAAF aircraft, comes amid ties strained by navy and air force interactions that Australia has called dangerous.\u00a0 Friday&#8217;s comments came a day after Australia flagged &#8220;unsafe and unprofessional&#8221; actions by the jet towards &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}