{"id":139118,"date":"2025-10-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139118"},"modified":"2025-10-26T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:00:08","slug":"why-does-chinas-navy-still-sail-to-gulf-of-aden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=139118","title":{"rendered":"Why does China\u2019s navy still sail to Gulf of Aden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese naval fleet including a guided-missile destroyer, missile frigate and comprehensive supply ship set sail earlier this month from a port in eastern Qingdao, heading to the Gulf of Aden and the Somali waters.<br \/>\nThe Chinese navy has been helping to protect commercial ships and countering Somali piracy since its first mission in the waters in 2008, when there were numerous attacks by Somali pirates.<br \/>\nSince 2013, however, there have been very few Somali pirate attacks, and in some years none&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3330194\/why-does-chinas-navy-still-sail-gulf-aden-despite-lack-somali-pirate-attacks?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 Chinese naval fleet including a guided-missile destroyer, missile frigate and comprehensive supply ship set sail earlier this month from a port in eastern&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\/139118"}],"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=139118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}