{"id":18992,"date":"2021-08-23T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18992"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T11:00:18","slug":"taiwans-planned-us7-billion-missile-boost-may-push-pla-to-step-up-combat-readiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=18992","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s planned US$7 billion missile boost may push PLA to step up combat readiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry is reportedly seeking to significantly expand the self-ruled island\u2019s missile development budget, but analysts expect a \u201crational\u201d response from China\u2019s military despite its sabre-rattling.They say a war across the Taiwan Strait is unlikely for now, and the People\u2019s Liberation Army will continue to focus on boosting combat readiness.\u201cAt this stage, initiating a strike [against Taiwan] is rather unlikely and [Beijing] will probably take a more rational approach \u2013 that\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3146050\/taiwans-planned-us7-billion-missile-boost-may-push-pla-step?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry is reportedly seeking to significantly expand the self-ruled island\u2019s missile development budget, but analysts expect a \u201crational\u201d response from China\u2019s military&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18993,"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\/18992"}],"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=18992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}