The Ministry of Defense of Japan plans to deploy missile units of the Ground Self-Defense Force on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture before the end of 2022.The scale is about 500 to 600 people. Guides have been deployed in Amami Oshima, Okinawa Main Island, and Miyako Island in Okinawa Prefecture.The bomb troops, plus the troops on Ishigaki Island, will form a pattern of 4 strongholds. Japan deploys missile department on Ishigaki Island The team is essentially a traditional island chain containment method, which will not pose any threat to the Chinese military. Now this year Today, if a military conflict breaks out across the Taiwan Strait, Ishigaki Island will be the first target to be hit. Japan's missile force It is "vulnerable" to the Chinese army. The Taiwan issue involves China's core interests, and there is no possibility of concession in the slightest.When it is necessary to break through the "first island chain", China's various military services will advance together and collectively play a role.
With the power transfer and in-depth development of the powers of East Asia, the Sino-U.S. bipolar confrontation pattern has become increasingly finalized. The U.S. and Japan are now Intervention in Taiwan Strait affairs has been regarded as the key to contain China’s rise and hinder the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.Edge strategic grasper. The two sides borrowed weight from each other and asked for something, and it hit it off. From the beginning of this year until now, the U.S. and Japan Focusing on the situation in the Taiwan Strait, the alliance mainly carried out the following cooperative actions.
First, the leaders of the two countries, government department leaders, and affairs-level officials have repeatedly emphasized the importance of maintaining "peace and stability" across the Taiwan Strait through various diplomatic channels, and reiterated that they will strengthen joint military deterrence and crisis management capabilities. At the same time, it should be noted that Japan’s external propaganda intentionally links the tension in the Taiwan Strait with the confrontation between China and Japan on the Diaoyu Islands (including Japan’s distorted reports on China’s “Maritime Police Law”), the safety of the Southwestern islands and even the situation in the South China Sea, by creating peripheral wars. The crisis atmosphere has achieved the goal of drawing the United States to reiterate its defense obligations against Japan, continue to strengthen its own military power (such as acquiescing in defense costs to exceed the traditional upper limit of 1% of GDP), and it is controversial and controversial for procurement. Sensitive high-end weapons and equipment give legitimacy.
Second, the two countries have significantly increased the number and frequency of reconnaissance surveillance, intelligence collection, and joint training in the Taiwan Strait and its surrounding Diaoyu Islands and the East China Sea to deter mainland China with a high-pressure military posture. For example, data shows that since May 2021, the focus area of the US military's reconnaissance aircraft has slowly shifted from the South China Sea to the East China Sea. At the same time, from January to May 2021, the number of joint maritime power trainings between the United States and Japan greatly exceeded the same period in the previous two years, and most of the exercise locations were near the East China Sea, the Okinawa Islands, and the Philippine Sea not far from Taiwan.
Third, the two countries actively organize other countries to issue joint Taiwan-related statements, and encourage the inviting of foreign powers such as India, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany to send warships and aircraft to China’s coastal waters and conduct multinational joint training. At present, through a flexible and easy security cooperation mechanism such as the "U.S.-Japan Alliance+", Washington and Tokyo are pinning their hopes on creating a "quasi-alliance" for Indian maritime security in the coastal waters of China to enhance conventional deterrence, and using "great forces to suppress the border." Use momentum to disperse mainland China’s strategic energy and military resources in the direction of the Taiwan Strait.
Fourth, the two countries have begun to focus on the military conflict in Taiwan to conduct table-top weapon exercises and actual combat-oriented military exercises. Its geographic scope covers the entire "offshore" of China. In the future, it is possible to further strengthen the military intelligence sharing and defense cooperation involving China on the "U.S., Japan, and Taiwan" trilateral.
Fifth, the two countries have also built forward military bases for interfering operations against Taiwan and naval blockade against China with the Southwest Islands of Japan as the core, preparing to introduce new weapons, organize new troops, and create a new combat system. Among them, in Amami Oshima, Okinawa Main Island, Miyakojima, and Ishigaki Island, the Japanese side is accelerating the improvement of anti-ship missile and air defense missile forces as the core, and electronic warfare forces as the core, and the electronic warfare forces as the core of the cross-domain "refusal" operations against China. Force deployment. The U.S. seeks to dispatch a new type of littoral operation force capable of performing "island hopping" to the southwestern islands under the guidance of the Marine Corps' "Expeditionary Advance Base" operational concept, introduce new types of medium- and long-range land-based missiles and more long-range missiles. It is also proposed to establish a joint combat command with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
In short, on the one hand, the United States and Japan are fanning the situation in the Taiwan Strait and calling out thieves to be thieves. On the other hand, they use this as a cover to accelerate the comprehensive construction of a frontier deterrence system against China in an attempt to control and constrain China’s coastal communications, threaten the economic heart of the mainland’s coastal areas, and regain control. The initiative in military competition with China in the West Pacific.