{"id":200205,"date":"2022-08-16T19:07:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200205"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:37:34","slug":"yuan-wang-5-why-is-the-visit-of-a-chinese-vessel-to-sri-lankas-hambantota-port-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yuan-wang-5-why-is-the-visit-of-a-chinese-vessel-to-sri-lankas-hambantota-port-controversial\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuan Wang 5: Why is the visit of a Chinese vessel to Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cWhy is the visit of a Chinese vessel to Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port controversial?\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 16th August 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sri Lanka has approved the arrival of a Chinese satellite-tracking vessel named \u201cYuan Wang 5\u201d to its southern Chinese-funded Hambantota port.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship was scheduled to arrive at the port but was delayed in absence of permission by the Sri Lankan authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Yuan Wang 5?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuan Wang 5 is the third-generation scientific research ship of the Yuan Wang series, owned by China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship can be <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">used to monitor satellite, rocket and intercontinental ballistic missile launches. Several experts have described it as a &#8220;dual-use spy ship&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ship will be used by China to conduct satellite control and research tracking in the northwestern part of the Indian Ocean Region through August and September.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>How has India responded?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has expressed its concern over the Chinese vessel visit. India <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is concerned about the possibility of the ship&#8217;s tracking systems attempting to snoop on Indian installations while being on their way to the Sri Lankan port.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhy is the visit of a Chinese vessel to Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port controversial?\u201d published in The Hindu on 16th August 2022. What is the News? Sri Lanka has approved the arrival of a Chinese satellite-tracking vessel named \u201cYuan Wang 5\u201d to its southern Chinese-funded Hambantota port.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/yuan-wang-5-why-is-the-visit-of-a-chinese-vessel-to-sri-lankas-hambantota-port-controversial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yuan Wang 5: Why is the visit of a Chinese vessel to Sri Lanka\u2019s Hambantota port controversial?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-200205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704822338},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}