{"id":70233,"date":"2025-03-20T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/china-landing-barges-shuqiao-ships-what-does-this-mean-for-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-03-20T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:49:23","slug":"china-has-debuted-its-new-landing-barges-what-does-this-mean-for-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70233","title":{"rendered":"China has debuted its new landing barges \u2013 what does this mean for Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sighting of <em>Shuqiao <\/em>ships provides insight into China\u2019s integration of its military, paramilitary and civilian operations \u2013 and its plans for a potential invasion<\/p>\n<p>The short video is shot from a public beach in China\u2019s Guangdong province, the unidentified filmer standing quietly by some fishing boats and a few tourists out for a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Just to their right, a line of strange looking ships loom in the mist. The enormous ships are unmoving, raised above the waves by thick pylons. Drop-down bridges connect them to each other, the front one extending down to the sand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/china-landing-barges-shuqiao-ships-what-does-this-mean-for-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sighting of Shuqiao ships provides insight into China\u2019s integration of its military, paramilitary and civilian operations \u2013 and its plans for a potential invasionThe short video is shot from a public beach in China\u2019s Guangdong province, the unidentifie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/70233","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70234,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70233\/revisions\/70234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}