{"id":143337,"date":"2025-12-31T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143337"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:00:09","slug":"was-plas-taiwan-drill-testing-inexpensive-ways-to-wear-down-islands-air-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143337","title":{"rendered":"Was PLA\u2019s Taiwan drill testing \u2018inexpensive\u2019 ways to wear down island\u2019s air defence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe latest People\u2019s Liberation Army drills around Taiwan may have been testing how to wear down the island\u2019s air defences using rockets that are \u201ccheap enough to be used in large quantities\u201d, military observers said.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, the PLA\u2019s Eastern Theatre Command wrapped up a two-day live-fire exercise named Justice Mission 2025.<br \/>\nThe exercise surrounded large parts of the island and came less than a fortnight after the United States approved a US$11.1 billion weapons package for Taiwan \u2013 the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3338335\/was-plas-taiwan-drill-testing-inexpensive-ways-wear-down-islands-air-defence-system?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 PostThe latest People\u2019s Liberation Army drills around Taiwan may have been testing how to wear down the island\u2019s air defences using rockets that are&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\/143337"}],"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=143337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}