{"id":9539,"date":"2021-01-18T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118083\/china-us-rivalry-how-gulf-war-sparked-beijings-military"},"modified":"2021-01-18T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:00:15","slug":"china-us-rivalry-how-the-gulf-war-sparked-beijings-military-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/china-us-rivalry-how-the-gulf-war-sparked-beijings-military-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"China-US rivalry: how the Gulf War sparked Beijing\u2019s military revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"Monday marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, when American-led coalition forces invaded Iraq. The Gulf War sparked 30 years of chaos and turmoil in the once powerful Middle Eastern country but also served as a rude awakening for China\u2019s military leaders.With the technology and firepower on show during the conflict \u2013 precision bombing, satellite guidance, missile interception, air-to-surface strike to eliminate tanks, electronic warfare, one-way transparency on the battlefield,\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118083\/china-us-rivalry-how-gulf-war-sparked-beijings-military\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, when American-led coalition forces invaded Iraq. The Gulf War sparked 30 years of chaos and turmoil in the once powerful Middle Eastern country but also served as a rude awakening for China\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"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\/9539"}],"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\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9540,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions\/9540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}