Trump‘s Abe is credited with the four giants discussing the Indo-Pacific strategy focusing on China
Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has emphasized the importance of pursuing the Indo-Pacific strategy, and has received the approval and participation of allies such as Japan and Australia, as well as otherwise neutral countries such as India. The Trump administration broke with convention by declassifying the framework of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy it developed in 2018 less than eight days before stepping down on Jan. 12.
The U.S., Japan, Australia and India finally held their first foreign ministers’ meeting on Oct. 6 last year against the backdrop of the Communist China pneumonia pandemic, RFE/RL reported. On March 12 of this year, Biden met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Morrison for the first leaders’ meeting under the Quadripartite Dialogue (Quad) mechanism.
In addition to President Trump, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is also credited with bringing the Quad to the geopolitical forefront.
Back in 2007, during his visit to India during his first term as prime minister, Shinzo Abe delivered a speech in the Indian parliament entitled “The Meeting of Two Oceans. In his speech, he said, “The Pacific and Indian Oceans are vibrantly linking as seas of freedom and prosperity, and an ‘expanded Asia’ that breaks down geographical boundaries is beginning to take shape.” In the same year, Indian strategic scholar Gurpreet S Khurana introduced the concept of “Indo-Pacific” to refer to the geopolitical region of Asian and East African countries bordering the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans.
In January 2013, Shinzo Abe, soon after he became Prime Minister of Japan again, published an article saying, “I conceive a strategy in which Australia, India, Japan and Hawaii of the United States form a diamond shape to defend the high seas from the Indian Ocean region to the Western Pacific. …… “In February of the same year, Abe again mentioned the Indo-Pacific concept in a speech in Washington, D.C., during his visit to the U.S. In August 2016, Abe formally introduced the concept of a “free and open Indo-Pacific strategy” at a conference on African development in Kenya. In August 2016, Abe formally introduced the concept of “Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy” at the African Development Conference in Kenya.
It is worth mentioning that the concept of the Indo-Pacific region is gradually gaining popularity. France, Germany and the Netherlands, as EU countries, have also issued strategic documents for the region.
Shinzo Abe: Japan is already at the forefront of the confrontation between China and the United States
The Taiwan Strait is approaching the brink of war in the next few years, which has been frequently raised recently. In the face of the possible outbreak of conflict, the neighboring Japan, although based on the principle of military self-defense, can not directly send troops, but still has its important value in the international strategy.
According to the news of 27th of international media reported by Free Asia, John Aquilino, the commander of the U.S. Indian Pacific Fleet, said in the Senate Armed Services Committee on the 23rd, “I think it’s more imminent than most people think,” confirming the U.S. official’s concern about China and Taiwan’s Taiwan Strait military conflict. The U.S. official’s concern about a military conflict between China and Taiwan has grown deeper. However, Aquilino reiterated that “a strong U.S.-Japan alliance will be the foundation of the Indo-Pacific strategy. He also called on Congress to provide an additional $27 billion budget for the Indo-Pacific fleet over six years starting in 2022.
Japan and Taiwan are both located in the first island chain, and their position in the U.S.-Japan Indo-Pacific strategy is quite important. However, China has intensified its military threat in the East China Sea and South China Sea in recent years, and the risk of conflict in these waters has been rising. The number of Chinese military aircraft circling around Taiwan is also increasing as relations between the Communist Party and Europe and the United States deteriorate.
Japan has a U.S. military presence, and U.S. forces and the Self-Defense Forces monitor Chinese Communist Party operations around the clock. The Kadena base in Okinawa Prefecture is the largest U.S. military base in the Far East, with more than 20,000 U.S. troops stationed there.
Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, a well-known “pro-Taiwan faction,” has also made many statements about the situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong in the past. According to Kyodo News on March 27, former Prime Minister Abe said Japan has become the frontline of the U.S.-China confrontation. The Asian region, including Japan, has become the frontline of the confrontation between the United States and China. He said on China Policy: “We need to hold the understanding and psychological preparation that the Indo-Pacific region has become the front line, and commit to foreign and security security policy.”
The imperative to target the Chinese Communist Party! U.S. Begins Construction of Seawolf Class Nuclear Submarine
The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class submarine is currently recognized as the world’s best performing nuclear-powered attack submarine, originally designed to target the Soviet nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the Cold War era, although only three were produced in the United States.
The total cost of the Seawolf-class submarine was estimated at $33 billion for 12 submarines, said Chester, former director of the U.S. Pacific Command Intelligence Center, “This additional acquisition can be seen as the latest U.S. response to China’s expansion of naval power in the Western Pacific. is gradually recovering. In addition, the number of Chinese naval submarines continues to grow rapidly, posing a clear threat to U.S. maritime hegemony in the Western Pacific.
In order to contain the Russian and Chinese navies’ submarines, it seems imperative that the U.S. Navy begin construction of a new Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine, tentatively named the SSN(X) class, which is scheduled to be designed and launched in the 2030s, with the expectation that 30 will be built at a rate of two per year. But according to an analysis by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the final unit cost of the new submarine could be even more expensive at $5.5 billion.
There may still be at least a 20-year gap between the latest Chinese nuclear submarine technology and the U.S. Seawolf-class nuclear submarine.
Apollo chief commentator Wang Druo believes: If the Chinese Communist Party wants to fight a war with the U.S. military with conventional weapons, it can’t win, and it won’t win in another 20 years. There is a recent news that the U.S. military assesses that the Chinese Communist Party will be on par with the U.S. military by 2040, but it is actually the U.S. military from the perspective of the military. When the real war starts, less bloodshed, less casualties, and a quick victory.
The U.S. and Taiwan signed a military cooperation treaty, and the Chinese Communist Party played deaf and dumb
Taiwan and the United States recently signed a monumental “Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol Cooperation Understanding Memorandum”.
Hong Kong Writer Yan Chun hook analysis, this agreement is ostensibly for maritime patrol, but because Tsai Ing-wen took office, the Maritime Patrol Agency has been transformed into the Navy, so the signing of this “memorandum” can be seen as the surface of Taiwan-US military cooperation.
Strangely enough, the superficialization of Taiwan-U.S. military cooperation is not a trivial matter. However, the Chinese Foreign Ministry has so far turned a blind eye to this and has not expressed a “strong protest”, which is the strongest support for Taiwan since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States.
Yan Chun hook believes that the Chinese Communist Party certainly knows the crisis is coming, but there is nothing it can do. The Chinese Communist Party cannot take all the maritime police ships to Taiwan’s outer waters to demonstrate, make a big deal out of things, and use force against Taiwan, when the Chinese Communist Party wants to fight and powerless, not to fight and lose face.
The superficial cooperation between Taiwan and the U.S. maritime patrol is in response to the Chinese Communist Party’s maritime police law. The Chinese Communist Party’s maritime police law provides that if a maritime police ship goes to a disputed area, it can be dealt with by force if it encounters special circumstances, such as in the waters of Japan’s Diaoyu Islands, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam. In other words, fishermen from the relevant countries, including Taiwan, will be hit by the gunfire of the Chinese Maritime Police vessels if they are not careful.
Yan Chun hook pointed out that Taiwan and the United States signed this memorandum, the purpose is not only to protect Taiwan’s fishermen, but more importantly, to open a new chapter of Taiwan-US military cooperation. This is just the beginning, in the name of maritime patrol, the reality of military cooperation, and later on there will be a larger range of cooperation one after another.
Back in March 2019, the U.S. Sea Patrol ship Bertholf already sailed through the Taiwan Strait together with the Navy destroyer USS Curtis Wiebe. It is evident that the U.S. has long had ideas for Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol cooperation. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on Taiwan-U.S. Maritime Patrol Cooperation is an epoch-making event, that is, the military cooperation relationship between Taiwan and the United States has been treaty-based. The treaty was signed, and both sides have to abide by it, so that in the future, when something happens at sea, they will rescue each other, and that actually represents the intention to deal with the Chinese Communist Party together.
Iranian civilians fiercely oppose the 25-year agreement with the Chinese Communist Party, tweeting threats against the Communist Party
Iran and the Chinese Communist Party signed a 25-year cooperation agreement that serves as a roadmap to guide relations between the two countries. At the same Time, local Anti-Communist sentiment has risen, with “#No2ChinaIRAccord” (#No2ChinaIRAccord) becoming a popular hashtag.
The Central News Agency (CNA) reported on the 27th, citing the Turkish Daily Sabah, that during his visit to Tehran in January 2016, Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping had discussed with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the establishment of “mutually beneficial investments in the fields of transportation, ports, energy, industry and services. The Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reached a consensus on a roadmap to establish “mutually beneficial investments in the fields of transportation, ports, energy, industry and services.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alleged last July that Tehran authorities were “negotiating a new 25-year deal with foreign countries” without the knowledge of the Iranian people. But Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif assured lawmakers at the time that the proposed deal “would not be secret” and promised to announce it publicly once its contents were finalized. To date, however, the Tehran authorities have failed to deliver on this promise, and almost all of the agreement’s contents have not been made public.
The semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported on March 27 that Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told Islamic Republic of Iran Radio and Television (IRIB) on the evening of March 26 that Chinese Communist Party State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is visiting Tehran, will participate in activities related to the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Iran and China He also told IRIB that he would meet with a number of senior officials and sign the above-mentioned documents.
Meanwhile, Iranian Twitter users posted pictures of “China out of Iran” and the Persian Gulf surrounded by the Great Wall. Others shouted at “Chinese politicians and people” in Chinese, stressing that “we, the Iranian people, are against any agreement with the Chinese.
A heated statement in Chinese appeared on Twitter, saying: “Suggest that the Chinese Communist government send coffins to every Chinese person sent to Iran… From now on, no Chinese will be safe in Iran.”
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