{"id":54444,"date":"2023-04-19T05:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/china-antarctic-station-inexpressible-island"},"modified":"2023-04-19T05:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:32:01","slug":"surveillance-fears-as-china-resumes-construction-on-fifth-antarctic-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54444","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance fears as China resumes construction on fifth Antarctic base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite images show building work for first time since 2018 amid concern about Beijing\u2019s growing polar presence<\/p>\n<p>China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based thinktank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country\u2019s fifth station in the southern polar region.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/aug\/18\/china-northeastern-sea-route-trial-voyage\">sought to develop new shipping routes in the Arctic<\/a> and expand its research in Antarctica, but western governments worry its increasing presence in the polar regions could provide the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) with better surveillance capabilities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/18\/china-antarctic-station-inexpressible-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite images show building work for first time since 2018 amid concern about Beijing\u2019s growing polar presenceChina is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based thinktank that shows constru&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[971,50,667,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctica","category-china","category-espionage","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\/54444","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54445,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54444\/revisions\/54445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}