{"id":37172,"date":"2021-09-21T20:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/xis-army-from-hiding-and-biding-to-building-chinas-dream"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T11:38:24","slug":"xis-army-from-hiding-and-biding-to-building-chinas-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37172","title":{"rendered":"Xi\u2019s army: from \u2018hiding and biding\u2019 to building China\u2019s dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The combat capability of the People\u2019s Liberation Army may still be a \u2018work in progress\u2019 but it is catching up through influence and training<\/p>\n<p>When Covid-19 swept across Iran last March, killing more than 1,000 people including the senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it was the Chinese military that Tehran turned to for help. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.gov.cn\/action\/2020-03\/19\/content_4862160.htm\">On 19 March 2020<\/a>, batch loads of testing kits, PPE and face masks arrived in the Iranian capital.<\/p>\n<p>In February this year, China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) began to donate Covid-19 vaccines to counterparts overseas. The Cambodia armed forces have received two batches of 300,000 vaccines; Sierra Leone\u2019s army was given 40,000 doses; United Nations peacekeeping forces secured 300,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/21\/xis-army-from-hiding-and-biding-to-building-chinas-dream\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combat capability of the People\u2019s Liberation Army may still be a \u2018work in progress\u2019 but it is catching up through influence and trainingWhen Covid-19 swept across Iran last March, killing more than 1,000 people including the senior commander of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37173,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37172\/revisions\/37173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}