{"id":28660,"date":"2019-01-11T04:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28660"},"modified":"2019-01-11T04:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T04:22:43","slug":"chinas-reaction-to-us-navy-operation-we-have-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28660","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s reaction to US Navy operation: We have missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>China claims to have deployed missiles &#8220;capable of targeting medium and large ships&#8221; days after the latest US Navy &#8220;freedom of navigation&#8221; operation near contested islands in the South China Sea, state media announced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The deployment of the DF-26 ballistic missiles in China&#8217;s remote northwest plateau, originally announced Tuesday on China Central Television, follows a mission from the US guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell, which steamed close to the Paracel Islands, the previous day.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Capable of hitting targets 3,400 miles (5,471 kilometers) away with nuclear or conventional warheads, the <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/12\/politics\/china-guam-killer-missile\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">DF-26 was dubbed the &#8220;Guam killer&#8221;<\/a> by analysts at the time because it would allow China to bring unprecedented firepower to the US island territory &#8212; home to Andersen Air Force Base and other key US military installations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)China claims to have deployed missiles &#8220;capable of targeting medium and large ships&#8221; days after the latest US Navy &#8220;freedom of navigation&#8221; operation near contested islands in the South China Sea, state media announced.The deployment of the DF-26 ballistic missiles in China&#8217;s remote northwest plateau, originally announced Tuesday on China Central Television, follows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28660","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\/28660","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=28660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}