{"id":2242,"date":"2017-06-14T06:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:39:44","slug":"us-alarm-at-possible-chinese-base-in-pakistan-ignores-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/14\/us-alarm-at-possible-chinese-base-in-pakistan-ignores-context\/","title":{"rendered":"US ALARM AT POSSIBLE CHINESE BASE IN PAKISTAN IGNORES CONTEXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/CHINESE-NAVY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-709\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/01\/CHINESE-NAVY-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>By F.M. Shakil<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s assessment this week that Pakistan may be set to host a Chinese military base is likely to have caused more of a commotion in New Delhi than in Islamabad. The fact is that Pakistan has provided strategic defense facilities to China for some time; indeed, such provision is key to the US$57 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).<\/p>\n<p>Sources privy to the facts of Pakistan\u2019s defense arrangements told Asia Times that China\u2019s military has long made use of\u00a0 facilities in Pakistan in return for helping to deliver the latter\u2019s maiden\u00a0 JF-17 Thunder fighter jet, its Burraq armed drones and custom AIP-equipped submarines.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/us-alarm-possible-chinese-base-pakistan-ignores-context\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : Asia Times By F.M. Shakil The Pentagon\u2019s assessment this week that Pakistan may be set to host a Chinese military base is likely to have caused more of a commotion in New Delhi than in Islamabad. The fact is that Pakistan has provided strategic defense facilities to China for some time; indeed, such&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/06\/14\/us-alarm-at-possible-chinese-base-in-pakistan-ignores-context\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US ALARM AT POSSIBLE CHINESE BASE IN PAKISTAN IGNORES CONTEXT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,842,579],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-new-delhi","tag-pakistan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/2243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}