{"id":4402,"date":"2026-04-01T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=4402"},"modified":"2026-04-01T21:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:21:22","slug":"25-years-ago-today-a-mid-air-collision-sparked-an-11-day-u-s-china-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=4402","title":{"rendered":"25 years ago today, a mid-air collision sparked an 11-day U.S.\u2013China standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>On April 1, 2001, a midair collision between an American aircraft and a Chinese plane sparked an 11-day diplomatic crisis \u2014 and the two countries still tell very different stories.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/01\/nx-s1-5768269\/25-years-ago-today-a-mid-air-collision-sparked-an-11-day-u-s-china-standoff\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, 2001, a midair collision between an American aircraft and a Chinese plane sparked an 11-day diplomatic crisis \u2014 and the two countries still tell very different stories. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}