{"id":26653,"date":"2016-06-08T19:15:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-plans-oceanic-space-station-in-south-china-sea"},"modified":"2016-06-08T19:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T02:15:47","slug":"china-plans-oceanic-space-station-in-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/china-plans-oceanic-space-station-in-south-china-sea","title":{"rendered":"China Plans Oceanic \u2018Space Station\u2019 in South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) \u2014 China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters.<\/p>\n<p>Such an oceanic \u201cspace station\u201d would be located as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the surface, according to a recent Science Ministry presentation viewed by Bloomberg. The project was mentioned in China\u2019s current five-year economic plan released in March and ranked number two on a list of the top 100 science and technology priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities recently examined the implementation of the project and decided to accelerate the process, according to the presentation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/washpost.bloomberg.com\/Story?docId=1376-O723OT6KLVS801-4F19M1R772ILNU0PIOC6M5OM29\">http:\/\/washpost.bloomberg.com\/Story?docId=1376-O723OT6KLVS80...IOC6M5OM29<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) \u2014 China is speeding up efforts to design and build a manned deep-sea platform to help it hunt for minerals in the South China Sea, one that may also serve a military purpose in the disputed waters. Such an oceanic \u201cspace station\u201d would be located as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26653","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}