{"id":144418,"date":"2026-01-18T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144418"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:00:10","slug":"why-china-may-need-to-take-the-nuclear-option-for-its-next-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144418","title":{"rendered":"Why China may need to take the nuclear option for its next aircraft carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has significant design flaws that future carriers can overcome only by adopting nuclear power, according to a military magazine.<br \/>\nThe Fujian is the country\u2019s first domestically designed aircraft carrier and was commissioned in November.<br \/>\nWith a displacement of over 80,000 tonnes, it is the world\u2019s largest conventional warship and the first non-American ship to be equipped with advanced electromagnetic catapults.<br \/>\nHowever, the most advanced US ships \u2013 the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3340320\/why-china-may-need-take-nuclear-option-its-next-aircraft-carrier?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\u2019s newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has significant design flaws that future carriers can overcome only by adopting nuclear power, according to a military&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\/144418"}],"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=144418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}