{"id":98444,"date":"2026-06-02T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=98444"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:05:45","slug":"china-lambasts-philippine-defense-chief-over-remarks-about-chinese-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/china-lambasts-philippine-defense-chief-over-remarks-about-chinese-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"China lambasts Philippine defense chief over remarks about Chinese \u2018threat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: \u200cChina accused the Philippine defense chief of having no gratitude for key Chinese commodities and of using issues about people\u2019s livelihoods for political showmanship, after remarks about China \u200cbeing a \u200cthreat.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Defense \u200cSecretary \u2060Gilberto Teodoro told \u2060Reuters on Saturday that China remains a \u201csevere threat\u201d with no show of long-term good faith despite Beijing \u2060recently offering fertilizer and \u200cfuel \u200cduring war-related shortages.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese \u200cforeign ministry said \u200cthose remarks demonstrated that Teodoro is \u201csolely driven by personal interests\u201d and had disregarded the \u200cwell-being of the population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf such individuals \u2060are \u2060allowed to act as they please, how will China continue to provide aid and supplies to the Philippines?\u201d ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told reporters at a Tuesday briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: \u200cChina accused the Philippine defense chief of having no gratitude for key Chinese commodities and of using issues about people\u2019s livelihoods for political showmanship, after remarks about China \u200cbeing a \u200cthreat. Philippine Defense \u200cSecretary \u2060Gilberto Teodoro told \u2060Reuters on Saturday that China remains a \u201csevere threat\u201d with no show of long-term good faith despite &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98465,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98444\/revisions\/98465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}