{"id":215186,"date":"2020-10-18T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215186"},"modified":"2020-10-20T06:57:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T06:57:17","slug":"chinese-president-tells-forces-to-prepare-for-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215186","title":{"rendered":"Chinese President Tells Forces to Prepare for War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">China releases footage of its air force conducting a live-fire drill after President Xi urged his army to &#8216;focus on preparing for WAR&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Dramatic footage featuring Chinese fighter jets shows pilots firing at targets<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>The exercise was conducted by the nation&#8217;s main force for the South China Sea<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Comes after President Xi called for war preparedness while visiting the army<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Beijing has been flexing its muscle and ramping up drills around the country<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emilia Jiang \u2013 Mail Online Oct 16, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">China has released new footage of its air force conducting a live-fire drill just days after President <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/xi-jinping\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Xi Jinping<\/span><\/strong><\/a> urged his troops to &#8216;focus on preparing for war&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a dramatic video shared today by state broadcaster CCTV, a group of Chinese fighter jets is seen hovering across mountains and sea as pilots fired bullets at targets during a combat exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The video comes after the country&#8217;s leader told his marine soldiers to focus on war preparedness while remaining highly vigilant during a visit to a military base in southern Chinese Guangdong this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215187\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/China-has-released-new-footage-of-its-Air-Force-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215187\" class=\"wp-image-215187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/China-has-released-new-footage-of-its-Air-Force-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/China-has-released-new-footage-of-its-Air-Force-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/China-has-released-new-footage-of-its-Air-Force-conducting-live-fire-drills-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">China has released new footage of its armed forces conducting live fire drills. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Communist country has been flexing its muscle and ramping military exercises amid rising tensions between China and self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers as its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Friday, CCTV released a new\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/t.cn\/A6b0OYxU\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">video<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0showing a live-fire drill conducted by the air force from China&#8217;s Southern Theatre Command, a military division tasked to safeguard the country&#8217;s national interest on the disputed South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Communist country has been flexing its muscle and ramping military exercises amid rising tensions between China and self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers as its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215188\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/With-dramatic-music-Chinese-fighters-were-filmed-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215188\" class=\"wp-image-215188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/With-dramatic-music-Chinese-fighters-were-filmed-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/With-dramatic-music-Chinese-fighters-were-filmed-conducting-live-fire-drills.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/With-dramatic-music-Chinese-fighters-were-filmed-conducting-live-fire-drills-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-215188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Dramatic music Chinese fighters were filmed firing missiles. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On Friday, CCTV released a new <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/t.cn\/A6b0OYxU\"><strong>video<\/strong><\/a><\/span> showing a live-fire drill conducted by the air force from China&#8217;s Southern Theatre Command, a military division tasked to safeguard the country&#8217;s national interest on the disputed South China Sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">With dramatic music, a group of warplanes is seen taking off the runaway as pilots swerved across mountains and sea while firing at targets in the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The exercise is said to have taken place at an undisclosed training base in Guangdong province on Sunday, according to the army&#8217;s <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/_ko1Zu3P_cuJMD9hn-XGyQ\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">social media post<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MAmAz2YQU2M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8847551\/China-air-force-conducts-drill-President-Xi-urged-army-focus-preparing-WAR.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid mounting tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea, Chinese President Xi Jinping urges his forces to prepare for the worst<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":215188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215192,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215186\/revisions\/215192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}