{"id":49618,"date":"2025-06-09T13:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T07:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49618"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:07:53","slug":"thitu-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thitu-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Thitu Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thitu Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A Chinese ship was recently struck aground in severe weather in shallow seas off Philippine-occupied Thitu island in the disputed South China Sea, causing Filipino soldiers to be on high alert.<\/p>\n<h2>About Thitu Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Thitu Island (also known as Pag-asa Island in the Philippines) is located in the\u00a0<strong>South China Sea<\/strong>, specifically within the<strong>\u00a0Spratly Islands archipelago.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Spratly Islands<\/strong>\u00a0consist of more than\u00a0<strong>100 small islands or reefs<\/strong>\u00a0in the South China Sea.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0<strong>claimed in their entirety by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam,\u00a0<\/strong>while\u00a0<strong>portions are claimed by Malaysia and the Philippines<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Thitu Island is the\u00a0<strong>second largest of the naturally occurring Spratly Islands<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0<strong>largest of nine islands occupied by the Philippines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Thitu Island is\u00a0<strong>home to a Philippine fishing village and Filipino forces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been<strong>\u00a0administered by the Philippines<\/strong>\u00a0since 1971, with civilian settlement initiated in the mid\u20111990s.<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>permanent civilian population,<\/strong>\u00a0including a school and airport (Rancudo Airfield), a large harbor, and a lighthouse for navigation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is only about 2<strong>4\u201327\u202fkm from China\u2019s Subi Reef<\/strong>, which hosts a large<strong>\u00a0military base.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thitu Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Thitu Island is located in which group of islands?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Spratly Islands<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the name of the airfield located on Thitu Island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Rancudo Airfield<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the significance of Thitu Island for the Philippines?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It provides strategic and civilian presence in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/world\/chinese-ship-stranded-near-philippine-outpost-in-south-china-sea-amid-storm-13895362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thitu Island, part of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, is strategically significant and claimed by multiple nations for its geopolitical importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,765,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-thitu-island","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}