{"id":155502,"date":"2026-08-02T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155502"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:00:21","slug":"will-philippine-sea-be-the-main-battlefield-for-pla-carriers-in-a-taiwan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155502","title":{"rendered":"Will Philippine Sea be the main battlefield for PLA carriers in a Taiwan war?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, the Philippine Sea has been seen as the gateway through which US and allied forces would sail to Taiwan\u2019s defence in a war with the Chinese mainland.<br \/>\nBut with the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) increasingly pushing into the western Pacific, experts say Beijing would seek to place aircraft carriers in the waters east of Taiwan to complicate any intervention.<br \/>\nRather than a gateway, the Philippine Sea could be a critical battleground.<br \/>\nNortheast Asia is home to land-based missile&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3362656\/will-philippine-sea-be-main-battlefield-pla-carriers-taiwan-war?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 PostFor decades, the Philippine Sea has been seen as the gateway through which US and allied forces would sail to Taiwan\u2019s defence in a&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\/155502"}],"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=155502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}