{"id":386149,"date":"2020-11-25T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=386149"},"modified":"2020-11-25T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:55:38","slug":"china-likely-inducting-more-fighter-jets-for-western-areas-amid-india-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-likely-inducting-more-fighter-jets-for-western-areas-amid-india-standoff\/","title":{"rendered":"China likely inducting more fighter jets for western areas amid India standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China is likely commissioning more squadrons of a multirole strike fighter on the border with India, Chinese state media has indicated for the first time, as the militaries of the two countries dig in and deploy latest weaponry along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) amid the ongoing border faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s (PLA) western theatre command (WTC) \u2013 which is in-charge of the LAC \u2013 is said to be commissioning the J-16 fighter aircraft in the country\u2019s western regions.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be part of WTC\u2019s efforts to upgrade weaponry and logistics for its forces deployed along the LAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is likely commissioning more squadrons of a multirole strike fighter on the border with India, Chinese state media has indicated for the first time, as the militaries of the two countries dig in and deploy latest weaponry along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) amid the ongoing border faceoff. The People\u2019s Liberation Army\u2019s (PLA) western theatre command (WTC) \u2013 which is in-charge of the LAC \u2013 is said to be commissioning the J-16 fighter aircraft in the country\u2019s western regions. It appears to be part of WTC\u2019s efforts to upgrade weaponry and logistics for its forces deployed along the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}