{"id":10619,"date":"2009-08-20T08:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/15d4534b098454c4ec5521f1c7cd4eaf"},"modified":"2009-08-20T08:39:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T12:39:02","slug":"china-launches-military-website-on-military-building-and-national-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10619","title":{"rendered":"China launches Military Website on Military Building and National Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#39;s normally secretive Defense Ministry on Thursday launched a website <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.gov.cn\" title=\"Ministry of National Defense of the Peoples Republic of China\"\/>www.mod.gov.cn<\/a>, in a new bid to allay overseas criticism over its military transparency and the build-up of its armed forces. The site, which also has an English edition &#8211; <a  href=\"http:\/\/eng.mod.gov.cn\/\" title=\"Ministry of National Defense of the Peoples Republic of China\"\/>eng.mod.gov.cn\/<\/a>.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legitreviews.com\/images\/news\/2009\/china_military_website.jpg\" alt=\"Ministry of National Defense of the Peoples Republic of China\" title=\"Ministry of National Defense of the Peoples Republic of China\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of the Defense Ministry&#39;s website is to let the outside world know about China&#39;s defense policies &#8230; and show off the good image of the military&#39;s powerful, cultured and peaceful forces,&#8221; says a welcome message. China&#39;s military is the world&#39;s largest, and reported budget spending has grown by double digits in recent years. But the secrecy of the country&#39;s political system makes its Asian neighbors and Washington wary about its military intentions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#39;s normally secretive Defense Ministry on Thursday launched a website <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.gov.cn\">www.mod.gov.cn<\/a>, in a new bid to allay overseas criticism over its military transparency and the build-up of its armed forces. The site, which also has an English edition &#8211; <a target=\"_new\" href=\"http:\/\/eng.mod.gov.cn\/\">eng.mod.gov.cn\/<\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legitreviews.com\/images\/news\/2009\/china_military_website.jpg\" alt=\"Ministry of National Defense of the Peoples Republic of China\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The aim of the Defense Ministry&#39;s website is to let the outside world know about China&#39;s defense policies &#8230; and show off the good image of the military&#39;s powerful, cultured and peaceful forces,&#8221; says a welcome message. China&#39;s military is the world&#39;s largest, and reported budget spending has grown by double digits in recent years. But the secrecy of the country&#39;s political system makes its Asian neighbors and Washington wary about its military intentions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10619\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}