{"id":9111,"date":"2021-01-16T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117960\/south-china-sea-strategic-benefit-if-beijing-builds-tunnel"},"modified":"2021-01-16T04:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T04:00:19","slug":"south-china-sea-strategic-benefit-if-beijing-builds-tunnel-to-holiday-island-hainan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/south-china-sea-strategic-benefit-if-beijing-builds-tunnel-to-holiday-island-hainan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018South China Sea strategic benefit\u2019 if Beijing builds tunnel to holiday island Hainan"},"content":{"rendered":"A senior adviser to the Chinese government is calling for a proposed road and rail tunnel between mainland China and its southern island province of Hainan to be put back on the agenda, to boost the island\u2019s economy and help Beijing gain a foothold in the South China Sea.Wu Shicun, the head of think tank the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said a cross-sea passage project should be added to China\u2019s current or next five-year plan \u2013 the blueprint for nation\u2019s development \u2013 and\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3117960\/south-china-sea-strategic-benefit-if-beijing-builds-tunnel\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior adviser to the Chinese government is calling for a proposed road and rail tunnel between mainland China and its southern island province of Hainan to be put back on the agenda, to boost the island\u2019s economy and help Beijing gain a foothold in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111"}],"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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9112,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}