{"id":27959,"date":"2019-01-04T03:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27959"},"modified":"2019-01-04T03:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T03:22:27","slug":"a-british-military-base-on-the-south-china-sea-is-not-a-far-fetched-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27959","title":{"rendered":"A British military base on the South China Sea is not a far-fetched idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>When the British defense minister revealed this week that new military bases were being considered in Asia, critics questioned whether London has the money &#8212; or strategic vision &#8212; to carry out such a plan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But an examination of recent British defense initiatives shows that far from being an off-the-cuff play, a base in Asia would be a logical extension of moves made over the last few years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson broached ideas for a post-Brexit British military in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2018\/12\/29\/britain-become-true-global-player-post-brexit-new-military-bases\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with the Sunday Telegraph<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)When the British defense minister revealed this week that new military bases were being considered in Asia, critics questioned whether London has the money &#8212; or strategic vision &#8212; to carry out such a plan.But an examination of recent British defense initiatives shows that far from being an off-the-cuff play, a base in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}