{"id":111557,"date":"2020-08-18T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/chinese-stealth-fighters-head-west-to-confront-india"},"modified":"2020-08-18T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T00:14:18","slug":"chinese-stealth-fighters-head-west-to-confront-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/chinese-stealth-fighters-head-west-to-confront-india","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Stealth Fighters Head West To Confront India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-stealth-fighters-head-west-to-confront-india.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two Chinese air force J-20 stealth fighters have appeared at an air base in China\u2019s far west as the mountain stand-off between India and Chine enters its fourth month.<\/p>\n<p>The twin-engine J-20s are visible in commercial satellite imagery of Hotan air base, in the Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang. Chinese social-media users <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/detresfa_\/status\/1295403141421101056\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/detresfa_\/status\/1295403141421101056\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"first spotted the planes\">first spotted the planes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The J-20 deployment, however temporary, signals Beijing\u2019s resolve as China wrestles with India for influence over a disputed region of the Himalayas. But a pair of warplanes, no matter how sophisticated, don\u2019t represent much actual combat power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chinese air force J-20 stealth fighters have appeared at an air base in China\u2019s far west as the mountain stand-off between India and Chine enters its fourth month. The twin-engine J-20s are visible in commercial satellite imagery of Hotan air base, in the Uighur autonomous region of Xinjiang. Chinese social-media users first spotted 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":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111557","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=111557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}