{"id":1642,"date":"2005-08-01T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T05:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2005-08-01T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T05:27:01","slug":"chinese_missiles_for_indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/breaking-news\/chinese_missiles_for_indonesia.php","title":{"rendered":"Chinese missiles for Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Financial Times: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/b08524e4-01f7-11da-9481-00000e2511c8,_i_rssPage=79844dc0-cbe5-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html\">Jakarta in missile deal with Beijing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is seeking China&#8217;s help in reviving a 41-year-old programme to build short- and medium-range missiles that could be used to replace US fighter jets grounded by a long-running arms embargo, the country&#8217;s defence minister said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, signed a series of agreements in Beijing last week meant to flesh out an April declaration that the two had formed a \u201cstrategic partnership\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Indonesia&#8217;s defence minister, Juwono Sudarsono, said on Sunday that agreement was meant to help Jakarta develop propulsion and guidance systems for land- and ship-based missiles with a range of up to 150km. The plan was a revival of proposals to develop similar missiles, he said, and was intended to help Indonesia&#8217;s military diversify and end its current reliance on foreign-built fighter jets as a deterrent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think it&#8217;s going to be cheaper to offer some kind of deterrence rather than relying on fighter planes,\u201d Mr Sudarsono said.<\/p>\n<p>Six of the country&#8217;s 10 F-16s are grounded as a result of a US arms embargo implemented in the 1990s because of human rights abuses by Indonesian troops in East Timor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Financial Times: Jakarta in missile deal with Beijing Excerpt: Indonesia is seeking China&#8217;s help in reviving a 41-year-old programme to build short- and medium-range missiles that could be used to replace US fighter jets grounded by a long-running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/breaking-news\/chinese_missiles_for_indonesia.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}