{"id":143466,"date":"2026-01-03T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143466"},"modified":"2026-01-03T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:00:22","slug":"china-to-lead-joint-naval-drills-with-brics-nations-in-south-african-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143466","title":{"rendered":"China to lead joint naval drills with Brics nations in South African waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina will lead a joint naval exercise with Brics nations in South African waters next week \u2013 the bloc\u2019s first such defence cooperation that is likely to raise alarm bells in Washington.<br \/>\nThe South African National Defence Force on Wednesday said the exercise \u2013 dubbed Will for Peace 2026 \u2013 would bring together \u201cnavies from Brics Plus countries for an intensive programme of joint maritime safety operations, interoperability drills and maritime protection serials\u201d from January 9 to 16.<br \/>\nIt said&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3338479\/china-lead-joint-naval-drills-brics-nations-south-african-waters?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 PostChina will lead a joint naval exercise with Brics nations in South African waters next week \u2013 the bloc\u2019s first such defence cooperation that&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\/143466"}],"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=143466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}