{"id":45508,"date":"2022-06-17T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/china-launches-third-aircraft-carrier-military-advance-us-fujian-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-06-17T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T09:52:01","slug":"china-launches-third-aircraft-carrier-in-military-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45508","title":{"rendered":"China launches third aircraft carrier in military advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fujian unveiled amid heightened tensions with US over self-ruled Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>China has launched its third aircraft carrier, the first designed and built entirely in the country, marking a significant military advance for the Asian superpower.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as tensions between China and the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/15\/tensions-heighten-in-taiwan-strait-as-china-acts-to-extend-military-operations\">have ramped up in recent weeks<\/a> over Beijing\u2019s sabre-rattling towards self-ruled Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province to be seized by force if necessary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/china-launches-third-aircraft-carrier-military-advance-us-fujian-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fujian unveiled amid heightened tensions with US over self-ruled TaiwanChina has launched its third aircraft carrier, the first designed and built entirely in the country, marking a significant military advance for the Asian superpower.The announcement&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508","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\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45509,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508\/revisions\/45509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}