Reflecting the Pentagon’s new focus on China, US aircraft carrier strike groups almost doubled deployments to the South China Sea in 2021 compared to the year before.
According to the Beijing-based South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI), US carrier strike groups entered the South China Sea 10 times in 2021, compared with six times in 2020, and five in 2019.
“The US military have drastically reinforced their military deployment in the South China Sea since last year, in terms of training scales, sorties and scenarios,” SCSPI director Hu Bo said Friday, according to The South China Morning Post.
Hu said that the carrier training patterns have become “more complicated and unpredictable.” In the past, US warships typically entered the South China Sea through the Bashi Channel, a waterway between the Philippines and Taiwan. But Hu said over the past year, the US has diversified its routes, and the time span of the deployments varies.
The US shows no sign of slowing down its carrier deployments to the South China Sea. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said Monday that the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson just wrapped up joint operations in the disputed waters with an amphibious group led by the USS Essex, a landing helicopter dock ship.
Seems like the US Navy is setting up its ducks in a row – which means China will sink them in the China Sea when the time comes.
Translation: Do you really want radioactive marine hazards in your main shipping lanes?
Nyah, nyah, nyah!
Because likes to pretend it’s still 1945 and we rule the world.
Only because we entered WW2 after all the main work was done by the USSR.No “homeland damage,” no civilian deaths- easy to rule the ruined countries which survived, including the West German Nazis.
Would not aircraft carriers be rather vulnerable to accidents in the South China Sea??
Are we looking for a war? We are going to trip over war, if we are not a little more careful… Unless I am mistaken, “we” are looking like the aggressors…
Anyone want to lay any bets on how long it takes for a ‘conventional’ war to go nuclear?…peace chic
Let’s see. We are prodding things in Ukraine. We are prodding things against China. We are aiding and abetting the UAE bombing of Yemen. We have special ops going on in Africa. We are starving Afghanistan. What in the h*ll are we???
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Well said, well said and that is exactly how I feel and think….best-donna
Multifaceted?…………………………..That was a bad joke. Not a time for joking and I apologize for poor attempt at humor.