{"id":4622,"date":"2018-12-17T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2018-12-17T20:17:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:17:47","slug":"china-discovers-site-for-air-base-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/17\/china-discovers-site-for-air-base-in-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA DISCOVERS SITE FOR AIR BASE IN ANTARCTICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4623\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/ANTARCTICA.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence World<\/p>\n<p>Chinese 35th Antarctic research expedition team has recently discovered a huge blue ice area in the Antarctic suitable for the country&#8217;s first large permanent airport on the continent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blue ice has good bearing capacity, impact resistance and stability,&#8221; Xinhua quoted Sun Bo, the leader of the expedition team, as saying Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The team will inspect the blue ice area before deciding on the construction plan. The site can be used to operate China\u2019s strategic transport aircraft Y-20, Airbus&#8217; and Boeing&#8217;s long-range commercial planes without modifying their landing gears, Global Times reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There are eight \u201cBlue ice\u201d airports from different countries in the Antarctic, Sun said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.defenseworld.net\/news\/23897\/China_Discovers_Site_for_Air_base_in_Antarctica#.XBe2CCzQCUk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence World Chinese 35th Antarctic research expedition team has recently discovered a huge blue ice area in the Antarctic suitable for the country&#8217;s first large permanent airport on the continent. &#8220;Blue ice has good bearing capacity, impact resistance and stability,&#8221; Xinhua quoted Sun Bo, the leader of the expedition team, as saying Sunday. The&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/17\/china-discovers-site-for-air-base-in-antarctica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA DISCOVERS SITE FOR AIR BASE IN ANTARCTICA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","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=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}