{"id":687968,"date":"2022-06-06T18:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=207438"},"modified":"2022-06-06T18:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T18:40:54","slug":"us-wants-to-surround-china-with-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/06\/us-wants-to-surround-china-with-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"US Wants To Surround China With Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to surround China with missiles. But it\u2019s having trouble finding an Asian country willing to host the offensive weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The US military commissioned a\u00a0study from the RAND Corporation, a Pentagon-backed research group, to assess the feasibility of deploying intermediate-range missiles to the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The study closely analyzed the US government\u2019s relations with its five treaty allies in the region: Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Citing \u201can inability to find a willing partner,\u201d the RAND report concluded that the chance of these nations hosting US ground-based intermediate-range missiles \u201cis very low as long as current domestic political conditions and regional security trends hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-wants-to-surround-china-with-missiles\/\">US Wants To Surround China With Missiles<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-wants-to-surround-china-with-missiles\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to surround China with missiles. But it\u2019s having trouble finding an Asian country willing to host the offensive weapons.<br \/>\nThe US military commissioned a\u00a0study from the RAND Corporation, a Pent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,5722,7979,9595,4204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687969,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687968\/revisions\/687969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}