Since former US President Obama proposed the "return to the Asia-Pacific" strategy, the US government's strategic focus has gradually shifted from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific region. A recent article published by the US think tank shows that the United States has implemented its strategy of layout in the Asia-Pacific and encircling China since 2014.
According to US media reports, the US think tank "Democratic Pacific" published an article saying that in the 2014 edition of the "Four-Year Defense Assessment Report", the US Department of Defense stated that in order to better support the "rebalancing" strategy of the Asia-Pacific, 2020 US Navy 60% The military forces will be deployed in the Western Pacific region, including strengthening the presence of key naval resources in Japan, and this goal has now become more than possible.
The main measures taken by the US Navy include deploying littoral combat ship in Singapore , setting more destroyers and amphibious ships home ports in the Pacific region, and deploying joint high-speed ships to the Pacific region, etc. Surface ship .
According to incomplete statistics, the US Navy currently has 212 large combat ships of various types, including 10,328 tactical vertical launch units and 336 strategic missile vertical launch units. If more than 1,100 of these tactical units are used to launch Tomahawk cruise missiles, this means that in the Asia-Pacific region, at least nearly a thousand Tomahawks in the United States have been deployed.
The large ships deployed by the US Navy in the Pacific are distributed in 8 naval bases. Among them, aircraft carrier has a total of 5, attack nuclear submarine 27, cruiser 12, 38 destroyers, 7 littoral combat ships, 25 amphibious assault ships, 7 dock transport ships, 26 dock landing ships, ballistic missile nuclear submarine 8, cruise missile nuclear submarine 2. The total number of these ships, , has accounted for 55% of the total number of the US Navy, which is indeed almost the same as 60%.
It can be seen that the United States has indeed made every effort to encircle China at the doorstep of China. However, even if the US Navy mobilizes so many troops, U.S. think tank experts admit that the task of protecting important goals on Taiwan is becoming increasingly difficult and even becomes unprotectable, which will lead to the failure of the US military to win the air battle in the Taiwan Strait.
From an objective perspective, the United States' conventional military strength is indeed the world's largest. The Chinese military may need to be strengthened in ocean-going operations, but at home, China is not afraid. Moreover, regarding the Taiwan issue, China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe had a long time ago at the Shangri-La summit, "The Chinese military will fight at all costs."
And as the saying goes, "Those who win the hearts of the people win the world", after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict this year, the United States' international appeal is getting weaker and weaker. At the beginning, other countries in the world were asked to jointly impose sanctions on Russia. As a result, in addition to most NATO countries and Japan and South Korea were willing to listen to the United States, India and Turkey also turned a blind eye to the requirements of the United States and continued to do business with Russia. Even Latin America, which has always been regarded as a back garden by the United States, has gradually emerged in "anti-American" sentiment.
In contrast, China, Russia reached an agreement with China to trade energy with RMB 1 rubles a few days ago. In addition, more and more countries want to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization . This is that those who have attained enlightenment have many helps, while those who have lost their power have few helps.
