{"id":155373,"date":"2026-07-30T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155373"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:10:55","slug":"ex-pla-colonel-on-us-decline-and-chinas-nuclear-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155373","title":{"rendered":"Ex-PLA colonel on US\u2019 decline and China\u2019s nuclear arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostZhou Bo is a retired senior colonel in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University\u2019s Centre for International Security and Strategy, and the author of the book Should the World Fear China?<br \/>\nSCMP Plus readers get early access to articles in the Open Questions series.<br \/>\nThe People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) is approaching its 2027 centenary, a major benchmark set by Beijing to achieve military modernisation. What is that goal actually about?<br \/>\nChina has set two major military&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/plus\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3362374\/ex-pla-colonel-us-decline-and-chinas-nuclear-arsenal?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 PostZhou Bo is a retired senior colonel in the People\u2019s Liberation Army, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University\u2019s Centre for International Security and Strategy,&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\/155373"}],"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=155373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}