China was a participant of RIMPAC in 2014 and 2016 before being disinvited by the Trump administration in 2018.
This year's edition of the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise—or RIMPAC—returns to pre-COVID levels with 26 nations in attendance, among them Beijing's neighbors and many of its regional trade partners.-hosted symposiums in Hawaii and training exercises in the Eastern Pacific were scheduled to run between June 29 and August 4.
"By organizing such large-scale exercises, while the Ukraine crisis is underway, the U.S. is also intent on showing the world that the Ukraine conflict has not disturbed its agenda or consumed too much of its resources, and its strategic focus remains in the 'Indo-Pacific,'" the state-run paper said.
's trade war with Beijing saw China"disinvited" in 2018, a status maintained in the scaled-down RIMPAC 2020, which was held despite the pandemic. America's Asian treaty allies South Korea, Japan and the Philippines, as well as Pacific allies Australia and New Zealand, are among the countries set to take part in exercises ranging from anti-submarine and air defense training to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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