{"id":131090,"date":"2025-06-13T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131090"},"modified":"2025-06-13T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:00:07","slug":"what-does-chinas-pla-gain-from-operating-2-carriers-in-second-island-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131090","title":{"rendered":"What does China\u2019s PLA gain from operating 2 carriers in second island chain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn sending two aircraft carriers to the western Pacific concurrently for the first time, Beijing is learning to coordinate the vessels in open ocean, a tactic it would likely use to deter US forces in a Taiwan conflict, according to defence analysts.<br \/>\nThe two carriers \u2013 the Liaoning and Shandong \u2013 were spotted in the waters, having entered the western Pacific via separate courses over the past two weeks.<br \/>\nThey are believed to have practised dispersing, concentrating and communicating in the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3314380\/what-does-chinas-military-gain-operating-2-aircraft-carriers-second-island-chain?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn sending two aircraft carriers to the western Pacific concurrently for the first time, Beijing is learning to coordinate the vessels in open ocean,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131090"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}