{"id":75070,"date":"2025-11-07T20:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/07\/chinas-latest-aircraft-carrier-enters-service-to-extend-reach-into-high-seas"},"modified":"2025-11-07T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:02:17","slug":"chinas-latest-aircraft-carrier-enters-service-to-extend-reach-into-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75070","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s latest aircraft carrier enters service to extend reach into high seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say hi-tech Fujian will help expand country\u2019s military influence and reach farther beyond its own waters<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier officially entered service this week, signalling a new era in Chinese military expansion after a ceremony overseen by the country\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, state media has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Fujian is China\u2019s first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier, and the third for China\u2019s rapidly expanding navy, which is already the world\u2019s biggest by ship count.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/07\/chinas-latest-aircraft-carrier-enters-service-to-extend-reach-into-high-seas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say hi-tech Fujian will help expand country\u2019s military influence and reach farther beyond its own watersChina\u2019s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier officially entered service this week, signalling a new era in Chinese military expansion a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"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":[41,50,1090,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-water-transport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75070","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\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75071,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75070\/revisions\/75071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}