{"id":57620,"date":"2023-08-17T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/china-building-airstrip-on-disputed-island-satellite-images-suggest"},"modified":"2023-08-17T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T05:26:11","slug":"china-building-airstrip-on-disputed-island-satellite-images-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57620","title":{"rendered":"China building airstrip on disputed island, satellite images suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures appear to show 600-metre runway on South China Sea\u2019s Triton island, which is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>China may be constructing an airstrip on a disputed island in the South China Sea that is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan, satellite images suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of Triton Island, one of the major islands in the Paracel group, appear to show the construction of a runway of more than 600 metres (2,000ft) long, according to analysis by Associated Press. This would be long enough to accommodate drones, but not fighter jets or bombers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/china-building-airstrip-on-disputed-island-satellite-images-suggest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures appear to show 600-metre runway on South China Sea\u2019s Triton island, which is also claimed by Vietnam and TaiwanChina may be constructing an airstrip on a disputed island in the South China Sea that is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan, satell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[41,50,535,74,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-south-china-sea","category-taiwan","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57620","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57620\/revisions\/57636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}