{"id":110218,"date":"2020-07-20T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/special-report-china-expands-amphibious-forces-in-challenge-to-u-s-beyond-asia"},"modified":"2020-07-21T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T21:05:41","slug":"special-report-china-expands-amphibious-forces-in-challenge-to-u-s-beyond-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/special-report-china-expands-amphibious-forces-in-challenge-to-u-s-beyond-asia","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: China expands amphibious forces in challenge to U.S. beyond Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2014 China launched its military build-up in the mid-1990s with a top priority: keep the United States at bay in any conflict by making the waters off the Chinese coast a death trap. Now, China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing to challenge American power further afield.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s shipyards have launched the PLA Navy\u2019s first two Type 075 amphibious assault ships, which will form the spearhead of an expeditionary force to play a role similar to that of the U.S. Marine Corps. And like the Marines, the new force will be self-contained \u2014 able to deploy solo with all its supporting weapons to fight in distant conflicts or demonstrate Chinese military power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) \u2014 China launched its military build-up in the mid-1990s with a top priority: keep the United States at bay in any conflict by making the waters off the Chinese coast a death trap. Now, China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) is preparing to challenge American power further afield. China\u2019s shipyards have launched the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110283,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110218\/revisions\/110283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}