{"id":9686,"date":"2021-01-18T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118187\/pla-troops-south-china-sea-learn-essential-battlefield-english"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:57:24","slug":"pla-troops-in-south-china-sea-learn-essential-battlefield-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/pla-troops-in-south-china-sea-learn-essential-battlefield-english\/","title":{"rendered":"PLA troops in South China Sea learn \u2018essential\u2019 battlefield English"},"content":{"rendered":"Chinese troops stationed in the South China Sea are learning battlefield English to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments during engagements with forces from other countries in the disputed waterway.According to a report by state-owned English-language broadcaster China Global Television Network (CGTN), the skill is \u201cessential\u201d and \u201cmust be picked up\u201d. PLA troops are using gaps in their military training schedule for both concentrated learning and self-study.\u201cIn recent years, countries and\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118187\/pla-troops-south-china-sea-learn-essential-battlefield-english\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese troops stationed in the South China Sea are learning battlefield English to avoid misunderstandings and misjudgments during engagements with forces from other countries in the disputed waterway.According to a report by state-owned English-langu&#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\/9686"}],"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=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9760,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions\/9760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}