{"id":10448,"date":"2011-07-27T07:44:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2011-07-27T07:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:45:38","slug":"okay-everyone-relax-china-says-aircraft-carrier-to-be-used-for-research-and-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/27\/okay-everyone-relax-china-says-aircraft-carrier-to-be-used-for-research-and-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, everyone relax: China says aircraft carrier to be used for &#8220;research and training&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the latest story from China, which has finally acknowledged that they are rebuilding the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/jul\/27\/china-aircraft-carrier-defence?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">Soviet aircraft carrier<\/a> <em>Shi Lang<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shi-Lang-overhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shi Lang overhead\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shi-Lang-overhead.jpg 600w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shi-Lang-overhead-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Shi-Lang-overhead-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>China has officially acknowledged that it is rebuilding an aircraft carrier it bought more than a decade ago, but says the refurbished ship will be used only for research and training.<\/p>\n<p>A defence ministry spokesman, Geng Yansheng, told reporters on Wednesday that work was under way on refitting an old carrier, a reference to the <em>Varyag<\/em>, whose stripped-down hull was towed from Ukraine in 1998 and has been under reconstruction for the best part of a decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Building an aircraft carrier is extremely complex and at present we are using a scrapped aircraft carrier platform to carry out refurbishment for the purposes of technological research, experiments and training,&#8221; Geng said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the latest story from China, which has finally acknowledged that they are rebuilding the former Soviet aircraft carrier Shi Lang: China has officially acknowledged that it is rebuilding an aircraft carrier it bought more than a decade ago, but says the refurbished ship will be used only for research and training. A defence ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,683],"tags":[617,30],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-military","category-pacific","tag-carriers","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10450,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions\/10450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}