{
  "id": 6428181,
  "title": "Beijing boosts Taiwan-facing firepower with brigade-level 155mm howitzer deployment",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/beijing-boosts-taiwan-facing-firepower-with-brigade-level-155mm-6428181",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-09T13:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3366928/beijing-boosts-taiwan-facing-firepower-brigade-level-155mm-howitzer-deployment"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Beijing has reinforced its military firepower facing the Taiwan Strait by deploying more 155mm PLZ-05 self-propelled howitzers, according to state media reports. Replacing its older 122mm artillery, a heavy combined-arms brigade under the People’s Liberation Army’s 71st Group Army has been equipped with a batch of the 155mm self-propelled howitzers over the past two months and conducted its first…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}