Recently, Russian Navy and the Chinese Navy are conducting joint cruises in the Pacific waters. The two sides have conducted a series of training including maritime search and rescue, air defense and anti-submarine training, aiming to improve the military cooperation capabilities of the navies of China and Russia. The cruising distance of the joint fleet has exceeded 3,000 kilometers, and it passes through the offshore areas of the United States and Japan, and can be said to have passed through the "doorway" of the United States and Japan. The Sino-Russian joint fleet's cruise near the United States and Japan this time, while demonstrating "freedom of navigation", is also a warning to the United States and Japan who are trying to provoke China and Russia.
Recent cruise is the second joint cruise of the Chinese and Russian navies. The People's Liberation Army dispatched a large-scale destroyer, the "Nanchang" ship, a 054A frigate, "Yancheng" ship, and 1 "903A large-scale fleet supply ship, "Dongpinghu" ship, . The Russian Navy dispatched the 1155M large anti-submarshal Shaboshnikov, which just ended the mid-term transformation last year, and three 0380 frigate . Among them, the 1155M anti-submarine ship dispatched by Russia is the large ship at the bottom of its Pacific Fleet , and it is also the Russian formation command ship for the joint cruise of the Sino-Russian navy this time.
On September 27th local time, the General Staff Supervision Department of the Special Organs of the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced that it had discovered that a total of 7 warships of the Chinese and Russian Navy were sailing in the waters near the Izu Islands from 26th to 27th. According to a news release by the Japanese Ministry of Defense, as early as early this month, six of the seven warships had already started a cruise in the Sea of Japan near Hokkaido . The Japanese Ministry of Defense also stated that as the frequency of Sino-Russia joint military activities is increasing, Japan will keep a close eye on it and increase its vigilance.
The cruise of the joint fleet of China and Russia is completely in line with international law, and compared with the "navigation of Japan" of the Sino-Russian joint fleet last year, the joint fleet this year did not fully navigate the Japanese archipelago . However, this Sino-Russian joint cruise did scare Japan very much. Japanese Self-Defense Force even "sounded the alarm" to deal with it. It can be seen that this joint cruise did indeed shock Japan.
During this cruise, the joint fleet of China and Russia also passed through the offshore area of the United States.
On September 26th local time, the US Coast Guard issued an announcement stating that on September 19th, about 75 nautical miles north of Kisca Island in the west of the Aleutian Islands, the USS Kimball patrol ship of the US Coast Guard discovered the cruised Sino-Russian Navy Combined Fleet.
We can see that the time between the US military's discovery of Chinese and Russian warships and the announcement of the news has exceeded one week, which shows that the United States does not want public opinion to ferment. The joint Chinese and Russian naval fleet appeared in the offshore area of the United States near Alaska, which has made the United States nervous.
In the joint cruise between China and Russia last fall, the Sino-Russian joint fleet had already been to the US offshore waters of Alaska, and the Sino-Russian joint fleet appeared again at the same time and location this year. Therefore, many analysts predict that the Sino-Russian joint fleet will carry out normalized cruises in the waters near Alaska every year in the future, which is also an important reason for the US's tension.
After all, it used to be that American military aircraft and warships showed off their power in the offshore areas of China, Russia and other countries. However, this time the joint fleet of China and Russia "breaks into the offshore areas of the United States". In the past 30 years, except for being invited by the United States to participate in joint military exercises, almost no country's navies have traveled to the offshore areas of the United States. After the collapse of the Soviet Union , from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and then to the Indian Ocean, the United States can be said to be completely the overlord of the global ocean. Now that the Sino-Russian naval joint fleet has arrived in the offshore area of the United States, countries around the world will see that the United States' global maritime hegemony has shown obvious loosening, and the United States will of course be very nervous.
This time, China's warships have arrived at the northernmost end of the so-called " second island chain ". American analysts predict that China's warships may arrive in the core area of " third island chain " in the future - near Hawaiian Islands , and may also go to the Arctic waters through Bering Strait . No matter what happens, is undoubtedly bad news for the United States. The Arctic seas are rich in resources and the Arctic waterways have great economic value. As global warming , the value of the Arctic ocean will continue to rise. China is already the world's largest manufacturing country, and its development speed is still very fast. If it gains dominance in the Arctic waters, it will undoubtedly have a huge impact on the hegemony of the United States.
Due to geographical conditions, the Chinese Navy is not familiar with fleet navigation in the cold zone and sub-cold zone . Now the Sino-Russian joint fleet is cruising to the Bering Strait, which is undoubtedly of great significance to enhancing the Chinese Navy's experience in the cold zone and sub-cold zone waters. The Chinese Navy has not yet experienced cruising the waters near Hawaii, but last year Russia held a military exercise in the western waters of Hawaii in the central Pacific. Close cooperation with the Russian Navy is very helpful for the Chinese Navy to break through the second island chain and adapt to the meteorological and hydrological characteristics of the waters around Hawaii.
The United States’ three island chains in the Pacific are to encircle China and Russia and maintain the United States’ hegemony in the Western Pacific region. Since the new century, these three island chains have been increasingly used to target rapidly developing China. The US military has now admitted that within the first island chain, the US can no longer win a military confrontation with China. Now within the second island chain, the arrival of Chinese and Russian warships has also announced a significant decline in the United States' advantage. If China's fleet appears in the waters around Hawaii, the deterrence of the three island chains of the United States will undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
Previously, the United States has been under the banner of so-called "free navigation" and frequently dispatched military aircraft and warships to "make trouble" in South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait area to provoke China. The Sino-Russian joint fleet also went to the offshore area of the United States to "take a walk" and showed the United States what "freedom of navigation" means. However, compared with the domineering behavior of the United States in trekking into territorial waters, the Chinese fleet has always been cruised in the high seas and has never entered the airspace and territorial waters of the United States and Japan, and it is completely in line with international law and international practices.
The hegemony of the United States has entered dusk, and now in order to maintain its hegemony, conflicts are increasingly provoking globally. In this context, carrying out military cooperation can improve the military cooperation capabilities of the two countries and also improve the ability to jointly maintain regional peace and stability.
