{"id":157644,"date":"2026-09-19T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157644"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:00:08","slug":"is-africa-becoming-a-testing-ground-for-chinese-power-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157644","title":{"rendered":"Is Africa becoming a \u2018testing ground\u2019 for Chinese power projection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostSix Chinese J-16 fighter jets arrived in Egypt last month for a joint exercise in what was the aircraft\u2019s first known deployment in Africa.<br \/>\nIn Egyptian airspace, Chinese pilots had the rare chance to train against the Rafale, an advanced French-built fighter.<br \/>\nThe 6,000km (3,700-mile) deployment was completed in about nine hours with aerial refuelling, and tested China\u2019s ability to move and support a combat-capable air package far from home.<br \/>\nAnalysts say the exercise reflects a decades-long&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3367972\/africa-becoming-testing-ground-chinese-power-projection?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 PostSix Chinese J-16 fighter jets arrived in Egypt last month for a joint exercise in what was the aircraft\u2019s first known deployment in Africa.&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\/157644"}],"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=157644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}