{"id":135095,"date":"2025-08-23T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135095"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:00:09","slug":"why-chinas-df-31-missiles-are-still-effective-deterrents-decades-after-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135095","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s DF-31 missiles are still effective deterrents, decades after debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollowing what became a historic countdown, PLA Sergeant Major Zhao Jing tapped the laptop before him, declared \u201claunch sequence initiated\u201d, and exited the cabin of the missile vehicle he had ridden into the dense jungle of Hainan province.<br \/>\nSome 27 minutes later, a dummy warhead plunged into the southern Pacific Ocean in an uninhabited area near French Polynesia, thousands of miles from Hawaii.<br \/>\nThe moment on September 25, 2024, marked China\u2019s first full-range, trans-Pacific intercontinental&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3322794\/why-chinas-df-31-missiles-remain-effective-deterrents-decades-after-debut?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 PostFollowing what became a historic countdown, PLA Sergeant Major Zhao Jing tapped the laptop before him, declared \u201claunch sequence initiated\u201d, and exited the cabin&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\/135095"}],"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=135095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}