{"id":39500,"date":"2021-12-05T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/05\/uk-and-france-take-part-in-huge-naval-exercise-to-counter-emerging-threats"},"modified":"2021-12-05T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:59:58","slug":"uk-and-france-take-part-in-huge-naval-exercise-to-counter-emerging-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39500","title":{"rendered":"UK and France take part in huge naval exercise to counter \u2018emerging threats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top French commander cites \u2018rapid rearmament\u2019 of China and Russia as danger to maritime security<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s most senior naval commander has said future conflicts are likely to be fought at sea and in the cybersphere, citing the \u201crapid rearmament\u201d of countries such as China as a potential threat.<\/p>\n<p>Adm <a href=\"https:\/\/marine-oceans.com\/en\/interview-with-admiral-pierre-vandier-chief-of-staff-of-the-french-navy\/\">Pierre Vandier<\/a> made his comments after the French Marine Nationale and forces from five allied countries, including the UK, took part in what he described as a unique <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2021\/11\/french-navy-to-kick-off-polaris-largest-exercise\/\">two-week exercise<\/a> intended to prepare for \u201ccomposite threats\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/05\/uk-and-france-take-part-in-huge-naval-exercise-to-counter-emerging-threats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top French commander cites \u2018rapid rearmament\u2019 of China and Russia as danger to maritime securityFrance\u2019s most senior naval commander has said future conflicts are likely to be fought at sea and in the cybersphere, citing the \u201crapid rearmament\u201d of count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2714,"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":[50,221,526,938,470,1993,419,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-europe","category-france","category-military","category-nato","category-royal-navy","category-russia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500","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\/2714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39511,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39500\/revisions\/39511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}