{"id":36924,"date":"2018-08-22T15:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36924"},"modified":"2018-08-22T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T20:34:53","slug":"this-vital-oil-and-gas-choke-point-could-be-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36924","title":{"rendered":"This Vital Oil And Gas Choke Point Could Be At Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Vital Oil And Gas Choke Point Could Be At Risk<\/a><\/h3>\n\"SCS\"<\/picture>\n
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Beijing is taking to task a Pentagon report<\/a>, \u201dMilitary and Security Developments Involving the People\u2019s Republic of China 2018\u201d released last Thursday on China\u2019s military activities.<\/p>\n

The annual report issued by the Pentagon and presented to Congress, highlights growing Chinese naval capability, all the while underscoring the narrowing gap between China\u2019s maritime forces and he U.S. Navy as well as China\u2019s increased naval activity in the Western Pacific Ocean. The report states that China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has global ambitions far beyond the traditional perimeters of its land-based defense systems, a claim that Beijing has always cleverly downplayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PLAN continues to develop into a global force, gradually extending its operational reach beyond East Asia and the Indo-Pacific into a sustained ability to operate at increasingly longer ranges,\u201d the Pentagon report said, \u201cThe PLAN\u2019s latest naval platforms enable combat operations beyond the reach of China\u2019s land-based defenses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s aircraft carrier and planned follow-on carriers, once operational, will extend air defense coverage beyond the range of coastal and shipboard missile systems, and enable task group operations at increasingly longer ranges,\u201d the report states. It adds that Chinese bombers are also likely training for \u201cstrikes” on U.S. targets. Experts agree, claiming that decades of increased investment in new technology by China\u2019s military means it will soon have the capabilities to strike U.S. military installations in the Pacific by air.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, the PLAN now has a sizable force of high-capability logistical replenishment ships to support long-distance, long-duration deployments, including two new carrier operations. The expansion of naval operations beyond China\u2019s immediate region will also facilitate non-war uses of military force.\u201d China continues to learn lessons from operating its first aircraft carrier,\u00a0Liaoning<\/em>, the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n

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This Vital Oil And Gas Choke Point Could Be At Risk Beijing is taking to task a Pentagon report, \u201dMilitary and Security Developments Involving the People\u2019s Republic of China 2018\u201d released last Thursday on China\u2019s military activities. The annual report issued by the Pentagon and presented to Congress, highlights growing Chinese naval capability, all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[130,21349,5332,620,690,18992,1796,1127,21350],"class_list":["post-36924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-choke-point","tag-oilprice-com","tag-pentagon","tag-risk","tag-tim-daiss","tag-us-congress","tag-us-navy","tag-western-pacific-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36925,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36924\/revisions\/36925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}