{"id":5252,"date":"2010-08-17T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/08\/17\/pla-runs-on-whitewall-tires\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:42","slug":"pla-runs-on-whitewall-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5252","title":{"rendered":"The PLA runs on whitewall tires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:19080,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtontimes.com\\\/news\\\/2010\\\/aug\\\/16\\\/china-targets-us-troops-with-arms-buildup&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Times ran a story today describing how the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/16\/china-targets-us-troops-with-arms-buildup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese are rapidly building up their armed forces <\/a>beyond what would be needed to defend themselves or to attack Taiwan. This is, of course, an important story.<\/p>\n<p>However, when I saw the picture below of a Chinese missile-carrying truck, I cracked up. Whitewalls? The People&#8217;s Liberation Army has trucks with whitewall tires? Bwahahahahahahaha.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20091014-230531-pic-851155793_s640x401.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"401\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20091014-230531-pic-851155793_s640x401.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">File Picture (Associated Press)<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times ran a story today describing how the Chinese are rapidly building up their armed forces beyond&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,4618],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor","tag-pla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}