{"id":132141,"date":"2025-07-02T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132141"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:01:46","slug":"pla-landing-ship-spotted-off-northern-taiwan-ahead-of-major-military-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132141","title":{"rendered":"PLA landing ship spotted off northern Taiwan ahead of major military drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) landing ship has appeared unusually close to northern Taiwan, raising tensions ahead of the island\u2019s biggest military exercise of the year.<br \/>\nThe Type 072A tank landing ship was spotted on Friday as close as 60 nautical miles (111km or 69 miles) northeast of the Taiwanese city of Keelung, a key naval base and northern maritime gateway to Taipei, Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry confirmed on Tuesday.<br \/>\nChiu Chun-jung, chief of staff of Taiwan\u2019s navy, said that the ship had&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3316700\/pla-landing-ship-spotted-northern-taiwan-ahead-islands-biggest-military-drill?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 PostA People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) landing ship has appeared unusually close to northern Taiwan, raising tensions ahead of the island\u2019s biggest military exercise of&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\/132141"}],"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=132141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}