{"id":132190,"date":"2025-07-03T09:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132190"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:38:21","slug":"meet-chinas-first-home-grown-carrier-the-shandong-bridge-to-a-blue-water-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132190","title":{"rendered":"Meet China\u2019s first home-grown carrier, the Shandong, bridge to a blue-water future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAlmost a decade has passed since the People\u2019s Liberation Army pulled the trigger on President Xi Jinping\u2019s plans for a massive overhaul of the world\u2019s biggest military. In the latest of a series on Chinese weapon systems, Seong Hyeon Choi looks at what China\u2019s second aircraft carrier tells us about the PLA Navy\u2019s blue water ambitions.<br \/>\nThe Shandong \u2013 which arrived in Hong Kong on Thursday for its inaugural five-day port call to the city \u2013 is the PLA Navy\u2019s second aircraft carrier and its first to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3316800\/meet-chinas-first-home-grown-carrier-shandong-bridge-blue-water-future?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 PostAlmost a decade has passed since the People\u2019s Liberation Army pulled the trigger on President Xi Jinping\u2019s plans for a massive overhaul of the&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\/132190"}],"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=132190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}