U.S. forces are set to engage in a massive showing of military force next month in East Asia, with Philippine and U.S. troops holding a set of wide-ranging joint drills next month in locations that could be strategically vital in potential conflict...
of the Kremlin’s recent announcement to suspend the New START Treaty, the last of the post-Cold War era nuclear arms reduction agreements between Washington and Moscow. The tension coincides with separate fallout over the downing of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone that U.S. military officials say had its propeller clipped by a Russian fighter fighter jet just before crashing into the Black Sea.
U.S. forces are set to engage in a massive showing of military force next month in East Asia. Washington Times Asia Editorreports that Philippine and U.S. troops will hold a set of wide-ranging joint drills next month in locations that could be strategically vital in potential conflict with China. The drills come as the Biden administration has been trying to roll back Manila’s efforts to move closer to Beijing. A spokesman from the Philippine armed forces told local press outlets that the drillssome 12,000 American troops, some 5,500 local soldiers and about 100 Australians. Observers from Japan’s Self Defense Forces also will be present.
While the Pentagon is keeping the door open to direct military-to-military dialogue with Beijing, Chinese military commanders have recently refused to engage in talks with a key U.S. commander. Adm. John C. Aquilino, the U.S. Pacific commander, offered thaton a visit to Singapore, where he also sought to counter statements made last week by Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang contending that war with the United States is inevitable unless Washington moderates its policies.
China’s rhetoric is still less severe than that of North Korea, which claims its own recent military drills were a rehearsal for a “nuclear counterattack” scenario against South Korea and the U.S. Mr. Salmon reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw theCloser to home
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