{"id":51351,"date":"2022-12-22T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/22\/surge-china-military-operations-new-normal-xi-jinping"},"modified":"2022-12-22T18:51:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T09:51:38","slug":"surge-in-chinas-military-operations-reflects-new-normal-under-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51351","title":{"rendered":"Surge in China\u2019s military operations reflects \u2018new normal\u2019 under Xi Jinping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President has made escalations against foreign powers more common amid drive to beef up People\u2019s Liberation Army<\/p>\n<p>A rush of Chinese military activity across the region this month has capped off a year of increased aggression, as President Xi Jinping displays China\u2019s increased military might despite economic struggles and the impact of the zero-Covid policy and its sudden end.<\/p>\n<p>This month the People\u2019s Liberation Army \u2013 the Chinese Communist party\u2019s military wing \u2013 has broadened its aerial incursions into Taiwan\u2019s air defence identification zone (Adiz), come to blows with Indian troops in the Himalayas, run military drills near Japan and participated in major joint exercises with Russia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/22\/surge-china-military-operations-new-normal-xi-jinping\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President has made escalations against foreign powers more common amid drive to beef up People\u2019s Liberation ArmyA rush of Chinese military activity across the region this month has capped off a year of increased aggression, as President Xi Jinping disp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,419,74,930,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51351","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51352,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51351\/revisions\/51352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}