{"id":469704,"date":"2022-02-21T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=469704"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T06:14:50","slug":"australia-accuses-china-of-act-of-intimidation-after-laser-aimed-at-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/australia-accuses-china-of-act-of-intimidation-after-laser-aimed-at-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia accuses China of &#8216;act of intimidation&#8217; after laser aimed at aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accused Beijing of an &#8216;act of intimidation&#8217; after a Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian military surveillance aircraft last week.<\/p>\n<p>A P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated on Thursday while flying over Australia&#8217;s northern approaches by a laser from a People&#8217;s Liberation Army\u2013Navy (PLA-N) vessel, potentially endangering lives, the defence department said.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison said his government will demand answers from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can see it no other way than an act of intimidation, one (&#8230;) unprovoked, unwarranted,&#8221; Morrison said at a briefing. &#8220;And Australia will never accept such acts of intimidation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison accused Beijing of an &#8216;act of intimidation&#8217; after a Chinese navy vessel directed a laser at an Australian military surveillance aircraft last week. A P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated on Thursday while flying over Australia&#8217;s northern approaches by a laser from a People&#8217;s Liberation Army\u2013Navy (PLA-N) vessel, potentially endangering lives, the defence department said. Morrison said his government will demand answers from Beijing. &#8220;I can see it no other way than an act of intimidation, one (&#8230;) unprovoked, unwarranted,&#8221; Morrison said at a briefing. &#8220;And Australia will never accept such acts of intimidation.&#8221;<\/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-469704","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\/469704","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=469704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}