{"id":9179,"date":"2021-05-15T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9179"},"modified":"2021-05-15T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T14:00:11","slug":"us-china-rivalry-will-americas-new-floating-base-heighten-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=9179","title":{"rendered":"US-China rivalry: will America\u2019s new \u2018floating base\u2019 heighten tensions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe commissioning of a United States \u201cfloating naval base\u201d will extend the military competition between the US and China into areas where China controls ports, according to defence experts.However, as the base is vulnerable to attack, it will primarily be used in low-intensity conflict and non-war missions, they said.The assessment came after the USS Miguel Keith, a US$525 million, 785-foot expeditionary mobile base, was commissioned into active service with the US Navy on May 8. Its first\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3133504\/us-china-rivalry-will-americas-new-floating-base-heighten\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe commissioning of a United States \u201cfloating naval base\u201d will extend the military competition between the US and China into areas where China controls ports, according&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9180,"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\/9179"}],"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=9179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}