{"id":73861,"date":"2025-09-04T02:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/nuclear-triad-robot-wolves-china-weapons-parade"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:38:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:38:40","slug":"nuclear-triad-and-robot-wolves-parade-shows-off-array-of-chinese-weapons-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73861","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear triad and \u2018robot wolves\u2019: parade shows off array of Chinese weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On display in Beijing were nuclear weapons launched by air, sea and land, laser weapons and four-legged drones<\/p>\n<p>It was hardly a subtle attempt to project power. China showed off air-, sea- and land-launched nuclear weapons in its parade on Wednesday, a triad intended to demonstrate that Beijing\u2019s long-term aspiration is to match US military might.<\/p>\n<p>Also on display were large underwater torpedo-like drones, intended to threaten western warships, as well as anti-drone lasers and four-legged \u201crobot wolves\u201d, all designed to be noticed, regardless of their actual military effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/nuclear-triad-robot-wolves-china-weapons-parade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On display in Beijing were nuclear weapons launched by air, sea and land, laser weapons and four-legged dronesIt was hardly a subtle attempt to project power. China showed off air-, sea- and land-launched nuclear weapons in its parade on Wednesday, a t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"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":[41,50,1051,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-weapons-technology","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\/73861","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\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73872,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73861\/revisions\/73872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}