{"id":10620,"date":"2011-08-10T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2011-08-10T09:48:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:48:53","slug":"chinas-second-hand-aircraft-carrier-puts-to-sea-for-initial-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/chinas-second-hand-aircraft-carrier-puts-to-sea-for-initial-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s second-hand aircraft carrier puts to sea for initial trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Shi Lang<\/em>, formerly the <em>Varyag<\/em>, is undergoing a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/11\/world\/asia\/11china.html?_r=1&#038;smid=tw-nytimes&#038;seid=auto\" target=\"_blank\">sea trials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>China\u2019s first aircraft carrier began sea trials on Wednesday, the state-run Xinhua news service reported, a highly symbolic step in what is certain to be a years-long effort to create a carrier presence in the Pacific waters off its coast.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier, once known as the <em>Varyag<\/em>, left Dalian, its northeast China port for what analysts said would be a test of its rudder, propulsion system and other basics. Xinhua\u2019s two-sentence report stated only that the carrier would make a short voyage before returning to Dalian for further tests.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Defense Ministry said last month that the carrier would be used largely for scientific research and training. Foreign military analysts say it could be a decade or more before the Chinese can deploy and operate a true fleet of carriers, the most costly and complex weapons systems in any nation\u2019s arsenal. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shi Lang, formerly the Varyag, is undergoing a set of sea trials: China\u2019s first aircraft carrier began sea trials on Wednesday, the state-run Xinhua news service reported, a highly symbolic step in what is certain to be a years-long effort to create a carrier presence in the Pacific waters off its coast. The carrier, [&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-10620","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\/p2hpV6-2Li","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620","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=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10622,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions\/10622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}