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2022-09-06 China-Japan-Koreas
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Controlling the First Island Chain: How to Ensure China Can't Dominate the Pacific?
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[19Fortyfive] If you harbored any doubt that the first island chain represents the focal point of strategy, counterstrategy, and counter-counterstrategy in the Western Pacific, take a gander at recent developments out of Tokyo and Beijing. Exhibit A: the Japan Ministry of Defense released Defense of Japan 2022, an official statement wherein the ministry takes stock of Japan’s strategic surroundings and explains in general terms how it intends to manage them.
Its premier goal: deterrence.
Girding for battle along the Ryukyus chain constitutes a major part of deterrence for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi. Doing so, proclaims Defense of Japan 2022, will make "opponents realize that doing harm to Japan would be difficult and consequential." If China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) lacks the military capability to seize islands along the Ryukyu Islands chain—or if it can’t seize them at a cost worth it to Beijing—then Chinese Communist Party magnates should desist from making the attempt.
More at the link. 
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Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2022-09-06 00:00||
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