{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_oims5wpjydlhejz23oea","title":"Philippine coastguard battles funding cuts amid bigger South China Sea role","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/philippine-coastguard-battles-funding-cuts-amid-bigger-south-china-sea-oims5wpjyd","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_oims5wpjydlhejz23oea","seq":644136,"kind":"article","title":"Philippine coastguard battles funding cuts amid bigger South China Sea role","url":"https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3369216/philippine-coastguard-battles-funding-cuts-amid-bigger-south-china-sea-role","summary":"The Philippines is preparing to give its coastguard more responsibilities in the contested South China Sea even as the agency faces a more basic problem: whether it has enough ships, aircraft and personnel to carry them out. The proposed overhaul comes as the coastguard is being stretched by increasingly demanding operations around Philippine-claimed waters, while funding constraints threaten to limit its ability to keep its existing assets at sea. That tension is evident in…","published":"2026-09-29T10:45:28Z","seen":"2026-09-29T10:46:19Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-scmp-com-c244fd","name":"scmp.com","domain":"scmp.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q1198574","name":"South China Morning Post","type":"newspaper","country":"CN","designations":["daily newspaper","online newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-scmp-com-c244fd","topics":["asia"],"authors":["author","Raissa Robles"],"entities":[{"id":"Q37660","name":"South China Sea","type":"place"}],"image":"https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1280x720/public/d8/images/canvas/2026/09/29/ed1e2b6e-5c41-4bbc-98bb-b45f16a7f861_9f6d93c6.jpg?itok=TOe7Cor-&v=1790678727","mentions":5,"story":"st_oims5wpjydlhejz23oea","category":"economy-business","category_p":0.46000000834465027,"sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.5199999809265137,"political":0.7799999713897705}]}