{"id":193702,"date":"2008-11-22T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/22\/chinese-carrier-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2008-11-22T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T14:39:00","slug":"chinese-carrier-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/22\/chinese-carrier-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Carrier Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I noted that the Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/russians-look-at-anglo-french-cfv.html\">showed a carrier in drydock in a mockup of a new port facility<\/a>, and this week, we have a senior official in the Chinese Defense Ministry, Major General Quan Lihua, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/18\/world\/asia\/18china.html?hp\">suggesting that China is looking at acquiring a carrier<\/a>, though not to, &#8220;use it to pursue global deployment or global reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I noted that the Chinese showed a carrier in drydock in a mockup of a new port facility, and this week, we have a senior official in the Chinese Defense Ministry, Major General Quan Lihua, suggesting that China is looking at acquiring a carrier, though not to, &#8220;use it to pursue global deployment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1170,1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-china","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}