{"id":156805,"date":"2026-08-31T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156805"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:00:06","slug":"why-japans-hypersonic-and-underwater-weapon-plans-might-worry-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156805","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan\u2019s hypersonic and underwater weapon plans might worry China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn its latest swipe at Tokyo\u2019s military build-up, China singled out Japan\u2019s plans to arm its submarine drones with long-range missiles and test hypersonic weapons in Australia.<br \/>\nAnalysts say those moves could threaten People\u2019s Liberation Army amphibious groups and surface combatants within the \u201cfirst island chain\u201d \u2013 potentially affecting the PLA Navy\u2019s ability to operate in the event of a Taiwan conflict.<br \/>\nThe strategically important first island chain stretches from Japan to Taiwan, the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3365803\/why-japans-hypersonic-and-underwater-weapon-plans-might-worry-china?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 PostIn its latest swipe at Tokyo\u2019s military build-up, China singled out Japan\u2019s plans to arm its submarine drones with long-range missiles and test hypersonic&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\/156805"}],"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=156805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}