{"id":2597,"date":"2017-09-26T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2017-09-26T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:34:41","slug":"china-stages-first-live-fire-drills-at-overseas-base-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/26\/china-stages-first-live-fire-drills-at-overseas-base-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA STAGES FIRST LIVE FIRE DRILLS AT OVERSEAS BASE IN DJIBOUTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2598\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-560x336.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-260x156.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/09\/CHINESE-ARMY-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced : RT<\/p>\n<p>Chinese servicemen have held their first military drills at China&#8217;s first overseas base in the Horn of Africa in Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two months after officially inaugurating their first foreign naval military base abroad in Djibouti, the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) held live-fire drills for the first time on Friday, Chinese media reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time our soldiers stationed in Djibouti have left the camp to conduct combat training,\u201d said base commander Liang Yang, the South China Morning Post reports. \u201cThe live-fire training will help explore a new training model for the [Chinese] overseas garrison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooting exercise involved dozens of Chinese officers and took place at the country\u2019s national gendarmerie training range, where the Chinese dispatched armored vehicles and used pistols, automatic rifles and machine guns to strike practice targets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/404593-china-military-drills-djibouti\/<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PLA Djibouti Base Holds First Live Ammunition Shooting Drill\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U6KpLg6PglM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : RT Chinese servicemen have held their first military drills at China&#8217;s first overseas base in the Horn of Africa in Djibouti. Less than two months after officially inaugurating their first foreign naval military base abroad in Djibouti, the People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLA) held live-fire drills for the first time on Friday, Chinese&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/09\/26\/china-stages-first-live-fire-drills-at-overseas-base-in-djibouti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA STAGES FIRST LIVE FIRE DRILLS AT OVERSEAS BASE IN DJIBOUTI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80,1363,1664],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-china","tag-djibouti","tag-peoples-liberation-army-navy-pla","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}