{"id":719,"date":"2026-03-19T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bc8d7b8827310b34b86494557f08e768"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:00:41","slug":"chinese-warships-came-within-10km-of-australian-waters-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/?p=719","title":{"rendered":"Chinese warships came within 10km of Australian waters: Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chinese-warships-came-within-10km-of-australian-waters-defence.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A Chinese naval flotilla came within 10 kilometres of Australia\u2019s exclusive economic zone last year, and top defence officials warn further deployments are likely as Beijing flexes its military power.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Australian Financial Review<\/em> revealed in November that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5niyf\">Defence was tracking a Chinese flotilla<\/a> in the Philippine Sea that it believed could be heading towards Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese naval flotilla came within 10 kilometres of Australia\u2019s exclusive economic zone last year, and top defence officials warn further deployments are likely as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsarea.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}