America and Japan are looking to deploy a missile system to support Taiwan
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters news agency, America is trying to have a stronger military presence in East Asia in line with the policy of containment against China.
Accordingly, the Japanese news agency Kyodo, citing American and Japanese informed sources who did not want to be named, announced: Washington and Tokyo are considered as two strategic partners. They are developing a joint military plan for Taiwan in emergency situations, based on which missile defense systems will be deployed to support this island in East Asia.
These sources add: According to this plan, which is expected to be implemented from next month, the United States missile units in Nancy islands in the southwest of Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures of Japan and also in Philippine Islands located near Taiwan does.
Kyudo news agency claims that under this military program, the US Navy will be armed with Himars missiles. and other heavy weapons to be stationed in the Nancy Islands. Also, a unit of Air Force, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare (Jungal) will be deployed in the Philippines.
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State at the time, spoke in 2011 about America’s turning to the East to implement a containment policy against China.
John Mearsheimer, the greatest strategist Currently, the world believes that China has now become one of the great powers in the international system and seeks to establish regional hegemony in East Asia. However, the US should now use the same policy of containment against the Soviet Union in the Cold War against China.
Mearsheimer believes that there is a possibility of a direct military confrontation between the US and China in the South China Sea. There are disputed islands between Beijing and Tokyo in the East China Sea, and the island of Taiwan.
