{"id":156140,"date":"2026-08-16T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156140"},"modified":"2026-08-16T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:00:11","slug":"from-cargo-to-combat-china-urged-to-prepare-civilian-ships-for-wartime-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156140","title":{"rendered":"From cargo to combat: China urged to prepare civilian ships for wartime use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina should speed up plans to commandeer civilian ships for wartime operations, drawing lessons from Britain\u2019s use of commercial vessels during the 1982 Falklands conflict, according to a defence researcher at Beijing\u2019s top economic planning agency.<br \/>\nAs maritime security threats and great-power competition grow, Beijing should make greater use of civilian ships to support military operations, according to an article published last month in Defence Industry Conversion in China.<br \/>\n\u201cAs China\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3364193\/cargo-combat-china-urged-prepare-civilian-ships-wartime-use?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 should speed up plans to commandeer civilian ships for wartime operations, drawing lessons from Britain\u2019s use of commercial vessels during the 1982 Falklands&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\/156140"}],"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=156140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}