According to news released by China Taiwan website , the Chinese Navy's Liaoning ship aircraft carrier fleet recently organized another expedition to the Western Pacific for an expedition. This time, the Chinese aircraft carrier fleet will perform routine training in the waters around Okinawa and conduct high-frequency carrier-based aircraft night take-off and landing operations to further enhance the night combat capabilities of the carrier-based aircraft force. Among the warships escorted this time, there were 2 type 055 large cruisers, 1 052D destroyer, 1 054A frigate, and 1 901 comprehensive supply ship . Although for the Liaoning ship, this is just a normal sea training, for some countries with ulterior motives, the appearance of the Liaoning ship makes them uneasy, such as our "neighbor that cannot be moved": Japan.
According to a report released by the Japanese media " Yomiuri Shimbun ", the Japanese Ministry of Defense publicly announced at the beginning of this month that it was conducting intensive discussions on the deployment of the so-called "Okinawa Defense Group". The purpose of Japan's stockpiling of weapons on the southwestern islands this time is to deal with the so-called "trouble in Taiwan". It is expected to complete the expansion target of 3,000 stationed troops before 2027. The emergence of the Liaoning ship has attracted great attention from the Ministry of Defense.
The J-15 took off from the Liaoning ship
Because it can be seen from the location of the Liaoning ship, even from the location of the aircraft carrier formation, the carrier-based aircraft can reach Ryukyu within 10 minutes or even 5 minutes from the sea area where it is located, and carry out precise attacks on the missile bases deployed in this archipelago.
It is worth mentioning that just as the Liaoning fleet is organizing relevant subject training in full swing, the Japanese government officially approved the annual general budget for the 2023 fiscal year at the cabinet meeting held on the afternoon of the 23rd. In this budget involving tens of billions of yen, the defense expenditure allocated to the Ministry of Defense reached 51 billion US dollars, an increase of 26.3% compared with the same period, and its growth rate is the highest in history. Not only that, the Japanese government also plans to provide a budget of nearly 900 billion yen for weapons development, which is already higher than the total of the past four years. Moreover, Japan has also allocated a special budget to purchase more US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles and F35 stealth fighter . It can be seen that in the face of the new situation of the strategic game between China and the United States, the Japanese government has chosen a wrong path that is more dangerous for itself and neighboring countries: expanding armaments.
Liaoning ship action route
For a long time, Japan's right-wing forces have deliberately tried to embark on the old path of normalizing the military under the protection of the United States. For this reason, Japan's right-wing forces have been spreading the so-called "China threat theory" at home and abroad all year round. They have repeatedly interfered in China's internal affairs and expanded their differences with China on the issue of demarcation of the East China Sea to clear domestic public opinion obstacles for Japan's military expansion plan, thereby paving the way for the revision of the pacifist constitution.
Today, Japan is using the so-called "trouble in Taiwan" to expand its armaments, which has aroused concerns among its neighboring countries, including China. On the one hand, this move betrays the existing political consensus between China and Japan, and on the other hand, it deviates Japan from the track of peaceful development. But even so, China has made preparations early. While the Liaoning fleet is conducting high-intensity training in the Okinawa area, the annual joint military exercises between the Chinese and Russian militaries have been held as scheduled recently. The exercise area is designated in the waters east of Zhoushan to Taizhou , which is only more than 300 kilometers away from the closest point to Taiwan Island.
The Liaoning ship is in the Western Pacific
The Japanese government needs to recognize the reality and not imagine that it can always cling to the lap of the United States, show off its power against China or even imagine launching a "pre-emptive" strike, let alone imagine that it can interfere in China's internal affairs unscrupulously without having to pay the price. Chinese people have always loved peace, but we know very well that peace can never be obtained through negotiation or begging. Once Japan intervenes in the situation in the Taiwan Strait, Japan's mainland, especially islands such as Okinawa, will surely come within the scope of our military's attack.
