De
VS heeft een grote bek over de 'expansie' van China, terwijl het zelf
meer dan 800 militaire bases heeft over de wereld, waarvan een paar op het Japanse Okinawa.
Voorts is het meer dan belachelijk dat de VS nog steeds Hawaï tot
haar grondgebied mag rekenen, hetzelfde geldt voor Puerto Rico en Alaska....... Je kan trouwens rustig stellen dat landen met veel VS bases op haar grondgebied, door de VS worden gecontroleerd...... Zo durft Japan nu ook haar leger verder uit te bouwen en heeft het land het voornemen haar leger in het buitenland in te zetten, niet zoals nu al in VN verband, maar ook ter bescherming van Japanse belangen, dit in strijd met eerder gemaakte afspraken (na de terreur van Japan tijdens WOII), dit alles daar de Trump administratie daar geen bezwaar tegen heeft......
De VS nagelt China aan de paal voor agressie in de Zuid- en Oost-Chinese Zee, terwijl de VS oorlogsschepen niets te zoeken hebben in die zeeën en het op zich al een daad van agressie is dat die schepen daar manoeuvres houden!
De
allergrootste schande is wel dat de VS denkt overal op de wereld de de stabiliteit ten behoeve van eigenbelang te kunnen verstoren en daarbij de wereld steeds verder naar
de rand van WOIII voert...... Niet voor niets is de VS de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde!
US To Hold "First-Ever" Missile Drill On Japan's Okinawa
by Tyler
Durden
Sat,
01/05/2019 – 22:30
The
US Military will conduct its first-ever missile drill on the Japanese
Island of Okinawa, located in the East China Sea, as
Washington attempts to counter an increasingly aggressive
China. Japan
Times reported
on Thursday that the US military had notified Japan’s government
that it would deploy anti-ship missile systems around the
strategically important island this year, the original story was
released by Sankei Shimbun.
The
war exercise would fortify the island with possible
truck-mounted anti-ship cruise missile systems seen as a
countermeasure to potential attacks from Chinese surface-to-sea
ballistic rockets, the paper said.
China
has repeatedly railed against US military expansion in Asia and the
Pacific, describing the presence as a source of regional
instability. In the last several years, Chinese warships
have navigated near Okinawa, where roughly half of the
54,000 American troops are stationed, in an attempt to curb US
military dominance in the East China Sea.
To counter the treat, Japan, has, in turn, postured its military along the Japanese archipelago, a group of 6,852 islands that extends over 1,850 miles from the Sea of Okhotsk northeast to the Philippine Sea south along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia continent.
Some military strategists believe Beijing seeks to end US military dominance in the western Pacific by exerting control of the second island chain that links Japan’s southern Ogasawara islands, the US territory of Guam, and Indonesia, said The Japan Times.
China’s rapid military build-up in the South China Sea has frightened its Asian neighbors, with Japan’s defense chief last year indicating China had been “unilaterally escalating” its military war drills in the previous year.
Okinawa’s
strategic location between the Philippine, East China and South China
Seas makes it a critical military outpost to preserve freedom
of navigation of US warships and defend American security
interests in the region. Okinawa's proximity to China, Taiwan,
the Korean Peninsula, and Japan supports rapid deployment of US
marines to anywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere.
America’s
presence on the island is also a critical component of its
strategy to preserve peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Washington
remains massively invested in Okinawa as a means of policing
Asia and supporting Japan in its national defense, an obligation
that started when the US signed the Security Treaty with Japan
in 1960.
While
America has hundreds of military bases around the world, the Okinawa
base with future missile drills this year could be an indication that
conflict with China is nearing in the East China Sea.
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PS: niet China, maar Japan begon de oorlog (tegen China) al in 1937, terwijl Japan nu als slachtoffer van 'Chinese expansie' wordt afgeschilderd.......
