{"id":569008,"date":"2023-04-10T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=569008"},"modified":"2023-04-10T13:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:51:28","slug":"us-china-aircraft-carriers-sail-near-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-china-aircraft-carriers-sail-near-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"US, China aircraft carriers sail near Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China and the US flexed their naval might by deploying aircraft carriers in a rare showdown in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow channel that separates the Chinese mainland from Taiwan, as Beijing fumed over US House Speaker&#8217;s meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese defence ministry said a Chinese naval fleet led by the Shandong aircraft carrier passed through the Bashi Channel \u2013 which runs between the island and the Philippines \u2013 before reaching waters southeast of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier was heading to its first manoeuvres in the western Pacific, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China and the US flexed their naval might by deploying aircraft carriers in a rare showdown in the Taiwan Strait, the narrow channel that separates the Chinese mainland from Taiwan, as Beijing fumed over US House Speaker&#8217;s meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Washington. The Taiwanese defence ministry said a Chinese naval fleet led by the Shandong aircraft carrier passed through the Bashi Channel \u2013 which runs between the island and the Philippines \u2013 before reaching waters southeast of Taiwan. The carrier was heading to its first manoeuvres in the western Pacific, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post [&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":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569008","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=569008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}