China’s new nightmare: a Japanese containment arc in the Indo-Pacific
Just weeks after US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping invoked their countries’ World War II alliance at the White House, Keen Sword 27 turned symbolism into hardware. The 11-day exercise, which wrapped up on October 29, deployed US Marine NMESIS anti-ship launchers and MADIS air-defence systems to Yonaguni – Japan’s westernmost island, just 110km (70 miles) from…
Full story
Read the full story at South China Morning Post ↗
Continue reading this story on South China Morning Post, the publisher that reported it.
AI tools
Written by AI from the article text. It can make mistakes; check the original story.
