{"id":158955,"date":"2026-10-18T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158955"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T12:00:08","slug":"how-a-hospital-ship-helps-buoy-chinas-strategic-mission-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158955","title":{"rendered":"How a hospital ship helps buoy China\u2019s strategic mission in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBy the time the Chinese navy hospital ship had docked in the Guinean capital Conakry earlier this month, patients were already queuing for free consultations.<br \/>\nThe queues in front of the Auspicious Ark were so long that some people were told to come back the next day, according to Guinean media reports.<br \/>\nThe ship, operated by the PLA Navy, offers a range of medical services wherever it stops, including surgery to treat cataracts, appendicitis and hernias as well as gynaecological care. On this&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3371295\/how-hospital-ship-helps-buoy-chinas-strategic-mission-africa?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 PostBy the time the Chinese navy hospital ship had docked in the Guinean capital Conakry earlier this month, patients were already queuing for free&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\/158955"}],"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=158955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}