{"id":24664,"date":"2021-10-23T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=24664"},"modified":"2021-10-23T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T23:00:20","slug":"why-chinese-military-flights-towards-taiwan-prefer-southwestern-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=24664","title":{"rendered":"Why Chinese military flights towards Taiwan prefer southwestern zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe PLA air force\u2019s frequent flights towards Taiwan focus on the southwest of the self-ruled island\u2019s air defence identification zone because of air control commitments and the geography of Taiwan\u2019s central mountain range.A record number of PLA aircraft have flown more than 450 sorties across the Taiwan Strait since January \u2013 mostly towards the island\u2019s southwest \u2013 with 149 flights in the first four days of October, compared to 380 in the whole of last year.\u201cBut why do the PLA aircraft just fly\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3153449\/why-chinese-military-flights-towards-taiwan-prefer-southwestern?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe PLA air force\u2019s frequent flights towards Taiwan focus on the southwest of the self-ruled island\u2019s air defence identification zone because of air control&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24665,"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\/24664"}],"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=24664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}