The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force announced that the joint exercise in Japan from May 11 to 17 this year will include the U.S. Marine Corps and the French Army. (Photo)
The European Union’s 27 foreign ministers’ meeting just adopted to strengthen the strategic presence and action in the Indo-Pacific region, the Japanese Land Self-Defense Force immediately announced that the joint exercise in Japan from May 11 to 17 this year will involve the U.S. Marine Corps and the French Army. This will be the first time that the French army participated in military exercises in Japan, but also the United States, Japan, France 3 land forces for the first time in the territory of Japan to implement formal training. Foreign media believe that the French army participated for the first time in Japan in the United States-Japan joint training, showing that the Indo-Pacific and Taiwan issues have become an important issue in the international arena.
The French international radio cited Japan’s “Asahi Shimbun” reported that the location of the military exercise in Japan’s southern Kyushu Land Self-Defense Force Kirishima exercise site and Kyushu Western sea and airspace. The JASDF, U.S. Marines and French Army will conduct troop transport by helicopter and simulated urban street battles at Kirishima. In addition, in the sea and airspace west of Kyushu, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, the U.S. Navy and the French Navy will jointly conduct air defense training.
The Asahi Shimbun quoted informed sources as saying that the three countries hope to strengthen cooperation to keep the Chinese Communist Party in check. Recently, the Chinese Communist Party’s military has frequently appeared and expanded military operations in the East China Sea and South China Sea.
The report said that the total number of participants in the military exercise may be about 300, and all of them will not leave the Kirishima exercise site during the exercise and will be camped there.
Japan’s Chief of Staff Yoshida Keisu said at a press conference on April 15, the United States, Japan and France 3 joint military exercises on the peace and stability of the Indo-Pacific region, is of great significance; France is responsible for maintaining a free and open international order of important countries.
Lin Yingyou, an assistant professor at the Institute of Strategic and International Affairs at Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, said in an interview that the Chinese Communist Party has actively linked up with Myanmar in recent years, wanting to set up ports and military bases in Myanmar to break through the “Malacca dilemma”, so that maritime resource ships do not have to go through Singapore, directly from Myanmar ashore and enter China through high-speed rail. Therefore, the United States, Japan, Australia, India and France on the 5th of this month in the Bay of Bengal, launched a three-day joint military exercise at sea, intended to stop the Chinese Communist Party’s military operations; and in May, the United States, Japan and France to further joint military exercises, as the participating countries have aircraft carriers, the United States may carry out ship-to-shore combat exercises, familiar with other countries’ combat systems and models.
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