{"id":5025,"date":"2018-04-27T04:56:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2018-04-27T04:56:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T18:56:37","slug":"china-aircraft-carrier-leads-show-of-force-exercise-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5025","title":{"rendered":"China aircraft carrier leads \u2018show of force\u2019 exercise in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China has conducted large-scale naval exercises with \u201ca large show of force\u201d off Hainan Island in the South China Sea, Reuters reported.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Satellite images from Planet Labs, which were obtained by the news agency, showed at least 40 ships and submarines flanking China\u2019s aircraft carrier Liaoning, to which analysts described as \u201cunusually large display of the Chinese military\u2019s growing naval might.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudging by the images, it does seem they are keen to show that elements of the South Sea Fleet are able to routinely join up with the carrier strike group from Dalian in the north,\u201d security analyst Collin Koh of Rajaratnam School of International Studies said in the Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does seem they want to show inter-fleet interoperability \u2501 something the Chinese Navy has been quietly working on for some time,\u201d Koh added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Koh also said that&nbsp;\u201cwhile it highlights an extensive ability to deploy, we are still left to guess at the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy combat readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China announced that it will conduct combat drills in the South China Sea in the coming days but did not give specific details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The drills come after the US guided-missile destroyer, USS Mustin, carried out a freedom of navigation operation in Mischief Reef, an island controlled by China but is within the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China, in response, referred to this operation as a&nbsp;\u201cserious political and military provocation.\u201d <strong>(SOURCE: Agence France Presse)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has conducted large-scale naval exercises with \u201ca large show of force\u201d off Hainan Island in the South China Sea, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}