{"id":157760,"date":"2026-09-22T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157760"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:00:08","slug":"how-are-chinas-type-052d-destroyers-shifting-the-balance-in-the-western-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157760","title":{"rendered":"How are China\u2019s Type 052D destroyers shifting the balance in the western Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen state television aired footage in July of a Type 052D destroyer launching a YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile it signalled a significant expansion of the Chinese navy\u2019s long-range strike power.<br \/>\nThe missile had previously been associated with China\u2019s larger Type 055 destroyers. Showing it fired from a Type 052D \u2013 a class the People\u2019s Liberation Army has built in far greater numbers \u2013 suggests Beijing may be able to spread the weapon well beyond its much smaller force of Type 055s.<br \/>\nThat&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3368193\/how-are-chinas-type-052d-destroyers-shifting-balance-western-pacific?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 PostWhen state television aired footage in July of a Type 052D destroyer launching a YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship missile it signalled a significant expansion of&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\/157760"}],"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=157760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}