{"id":47548,"date":"2022-08-17T03:56:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/chinese-navy-vessel-arrives-at-sri-lanka-port-to-security-concerns-from-india"},"modified":"2022-08-17T03:56:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T18:56:27","slug":"chinese-navy-vessel-arrives-at-sri-lanka-port-to-security-concerns-from-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47548","title":{"rendered":"Chinese navy vessel arrives at Sri Lanka port to security concerns from India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan Wang 5 is officially described as a \u2018scientific research ship\u2019 but India suspects it has military functions<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese navy vessel has arrived at a southern Sri Lankan port that Beijing leases from the government, prompting renewed security fears from India.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, the Yuan Wang 5 sailed into the Hambantota port, which was built by Beijing, and was welcomed by senior Sri Lankan and Chinese officials in a traditional ceremony that involved red carpet and a massive banner that read: \u201cHello Sri Lanka, Long Live Sri Lanka-China Friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/16\/chinese-navy-vessel-arrives-at-sri-lanka-port-to-security-concerns-from-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan Wang 5 is officially described as a \u2018scientific research ship\u2019 but India suspects it has military functionsA Chinese navy vessel has arrived at a southern Sri Lankan port that Beijing leases from the government, prompting renewed security fears fr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2121,"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":[41,50,62,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","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\/47548","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\/2121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47549,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47548\/revisions\/47549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}