{"id":16504,"date":"2025-05-08T14:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/?p=16504"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:29:55","slug":"more-weapons-more-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/more-weapons-more-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"More weapons, more problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump 2.0 and Marcos Jr administration\u2019s acceleration efforts to deter China include the Philippines procuring more military equipment, especially weapons. But this makes the country and Filipinos even more of a target as US-China tensions escalate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-1229x1536.png 1229w, https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250507-IF_derivative-mil-sales-1638x2048.png 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump 2.0 and Marcos Jr administration\u2019s acceleration efforts to deter China include the Philippines procuring more military equipment, especially weapons. But this makes the country and Filipinos even more of a target as US-China tensions escalate.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2972,3908,3909,2325,3330,601,3566],"class_list":["post-16504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infographics","tag-marcos-jr-administration","tag-military-equipment-procurement","tag-military-sales","tag-ph-us-relations","tag-us-militarism","tag-us-military","tag-us-military-intervention","wpautop"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-13 00:32:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16506,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16504\/revisions\/16506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}