{"id":151510,"date":"2026-05-17T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151510"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:17:22","slug":"why-does-the-pla-object-to-japans-drone-plans-for-its-southern-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151510","title":{"rendered":"Why does the PLA object to Japan\u2019s drone plans for its southern islands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe People\u2019s Liberation Army has accused Japan of taking a \u201cdangerous gamble\u201d with its plan to deploy satellite-aided drones to its southwestern islands near Taiwan.<br \/>\nIn a commentary on Sunday, the PLA Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese military, said that while Tokyo maintained that it was building a multilayered coastal defence system, the equipment had a \u201cdistinct offensive nature\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile called a \u2018shield\u2019, it is in reality a \u2018spear\u2019,\u201d it said.<br \/>\nJapan\u2019s Self-Defence Force plans to acquire&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3353892\/why-does-pla-object-japans-drone-plans-its-southern-islands?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 People\u2019s Liberation Army has accused Japan of taking a \u201cdangerous gamble\u201d with its plan to deploy satellite-aided drones to its southwestern islands near&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\/151510"}],"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=151510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}