The US is increasing military exercises with its allies in the Asia Pacific that are meant as a message to China, the commander of the US Navy’s Japan-based Seventh Fleet told The Washington Times.
Vice Adm. Karl O. Thomas said the stepped-up exercises were meant to “deter” China, but tensions have only increased in the region, especially in the South China Sea, making conflict more likely. Thomas said he believes “being forward and having many nations working together … is a grand deterrent effect that we really try to amplify.”
“Everything we do, whether it’s being present and forward or whether it’s doing exercises with our like-minded allies and partners, it’s all about deterring aggression,” the admiral added.
Over the past year, the US has bolstered its alliance with the Philippines and increased joint military activity in the South China Sea, where China, the Philippines, and several other Southeast Asian nations have overlapping claims.
The US has committed to going to war over the dispute by affirming that the US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty applies to attacks on Philippine vessels in the South China Sea.
The increased military ties between Washington and Manila coincided with a significant uptick in dangerous encounters between Chinese and Philippine vessels near disputed reefs.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who came into office last year, has taken a much more aggressive approach in pushing back on China’s claims than his predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte. China has also demonstrated that it will not back down in the face of a growing US military presence.
The US has been encouraging other allies in the region to increase military ties with the Philippines, including Japan and Australia. France, Canada, and other Western nations are also increasing their presence in the contentious South China Sea.
Despite the focus on supporting wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the US military buildup aimed at China is still in full swing, which also includes establishing more bases in the region, plans to deploy new missile systems, and unprecedented support for Taiwan. US military officials have openly stated that they’re preparing to fight a future war with China.
So it goes……………….
Borrow and spend on building other nations.
Finally!!! Somebody talks about Chinese atrocities!!! They sold me a FANTASTIC REFRIGERATOR for just $1,000! That’s too cheap! They’re just as bad as the Russians selling cheap gas to Germany! Did you ever calculate how much would it cost to make such a FANTASTIC REFRIGERATOR and ship it within the US? It’s a crime against humanity! Let’s send all our children and grandchildren to die in a war with China! Who’s with me? …Man… Ok, curb your enthusiasm. I never thought you were all so pro-war?
Paper Tigering at full swing…!
Stupidity, rather.
We are sending a message to China by staging war games near them. If they stage war game off of our coast, that would be provocative.
Yes. Off the shores of Alaska. A joint exercise by Russia and China. That would light the hairs of the heads of the MIC on fire.
Well, that happened last August. Is the MIC’s hair all scorched off yet?
This just in.. .
President Marcos is in a spin about the struggle over rocks. . .
…from Inquirer
TOKYO, Japan — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is calling for a paradigm shift in the West Philippine Sea dispute, said the Palace on Tuesday.
“It’s time that the countries that feel that they have an involvement in this situation, we have to come up with a paradigm shift,” Marcos told Japanese media.
. . .“We have to do something what we have not done before. We have to come up with a new concept, a new principle, a new idea so that we move, as I say, we move the needle the other way. It’s going up, let’s move the needle back, so that paradigm shift is something that we have to formulate,” Marcos added. . .here
“Preparing?”!
Future War with CHINA will be full on NUCLEAR.
The best way to avert that is by UTILIZING PEACE. The sooner the better…
800 + military bases all around the world
re: The US has committed to going to war over the dispute by affirming that the US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty applies to attacks on Philippine vessels in the South China Sea.
Philippines president Marcos hasn’t even mentioned the US military in the last ten days. He has entered a treaty with Japan, big whoop. Marcos apparently has finally realized:
>PH has no anti-China support in ASEAN, which PH is a part of.
>Singapore has cautioned Marcos about starting a war, bad for everyone in the area.
>PH has other internal problems, including communists and ISIS, a major drought expected next year, and political differences.
>Xi has instructed his forces to make some progress in SCS and ECS (Senkakus).
>Manila unlike the US has a free press and the opposition is being heard, like here . .”US Navy propaganda unit fools PH media . . .The depths of humiliation our generals and admirals have brought us to is insane. Have they no shame?”
They’re having fun that’s all. NATO cannot defeat China and it knows it.