The military, submits a request for budget to the Congress
As if the Chinese rebellion fired… It’s easy to realize
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The Nippon Geizai Shimbun reported on the 5th that the US is reviewing a budget of over 30 trillion won to build a missile network on the first island line that runs from Okinawa, Japan to the Philippines. Although it is a paving stone for China’s containment, a strong backlash from China is inevitable, and it is expected to be difficult to realize.
According to Nikkei, the US military Indo-Pacific Command, which has jurisdiction over the Asia-Pacific, has raised a budget of $27.3 billion (approximately KRW 30.79 trillion) for six years starting from fiscal year 2022 (2021.10-2022.9) to strengthen deterrence against China earlier this month. The requested request was submitted to the US Congress.
The US military determined that it needed about $20.1 billion last year, but increased its budget by about 40% as China’s military activities in Taiwan and the South China Sea became more active. This is due to the choice of expensive ground-based missiles. In the request received by Nikkei, it was stated that’the core of the plan to counter China is to establish a precision attack network along the first thermal wire’.
The U.S. has been taking a countermeasure strategy against China, centered on the navy and air force. However, as China, which possesses various types of missiles, is poised to prevent the United States from approaching the second island line connecting Guam from the Ogasawara Islands, the existing strategy is no longer applicable.
In fact, according to the US Department of Defense, China has more than 1,250 ground-based medium-range missiles, but the United States does not. This is because the Mid-Range Nuclear Power Treaty (INF) for a long time has banned the U.S. from developing missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km. However, the U.S. withdrew from INF in 2019 and is no longer restricted.
“There is a growing need for discussions between the United States and Japan on whether to deploy medium-range missiles,” said James Rishi, a Republican secretary to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Japanese government is welcoming as China’s deterrence is growing with the US missile network construction. However, Nikkei analyzed that there are many mountains that must be overcome to build a missile network, as it could stimulate China and Japan could bear the cost in the future.
/ Reporter Park Seong-gyu [email protected]
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