European battleships are flocking to the Indo-Pacific. It responded to the US-led China’s check alliance front, the Quad (security council of the US, India, Australia, and Japan). China is protesting by referring to the’second opium war’.
British carrier, joint training with the US and Japan
French landing ship sails in the South China Sea
German destroyer works in the Pacific in summer
Tonech, the assault ship of the French Navy. Twitter
According to the French Ministry of Defense on the 1st, on the 18th (local time) of last month, the assault and landing ship Tonech and the frigate Schuup left their home port, Toulon. The Tonech and Shków were operating in the Pacific for three months.It will be done, the French Ministry of Defense said. These traps Two sailings in the South China Sea, combined maritime training with the US and Japan in MayAlso wages.
Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reported in December last year that the combined training of the United States, France, and Japan was about landing troops and equipment on uninhabited islands for the purpose of humanitarian aid and disaster relief. Newspaper is In fact, training for recapture of the Senkaku Islands (Chinese name Diaoyudao)It is analyzed that there is also the nature of sending a strong warning message to China.
Since last year, France has sent a nuclear-powered attack submarine, the Emerhode, and a support ship, Senham, to conduct patrol operations in the South China Sea.
British Navy aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. British navy
It’s not just France. The British dispatched flyers led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth to Japan earlier this year. The 70,000-ton Queen Elizabeth ship is the latest ship commissioned in 2017. It can carry up to 60 aircraft, including the F-35B, a stealth fighter capable of vertical takeoff and landing.
According to Kyodo News, British carrier flyers are stationed in Japan for a long time, and trained with the US Navy and Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Forces with support from the US forces in JapanWork. There are even observations that remind us of the English-Japanese alliance in the 20th century.
Germany also deploys a destroyer in the Pacific as early as this summer.do. German destroyers are likely to visit Korea and Australia as well, Nikkei said. The German government emphasized that it did not target a specific country, but in September of last year it released the’India-Pacific Guidelines’ with the main focus of’the rule of law and a free market’. In this context, the international diplomatic term used by the United States to press China is’the rule of law and free voyage.’
China is opposed to this European move. China’s state-run media, Hwangu Times, announced in July of last year that the British announced their intention to deploy carriers to the Korean Peninsula and the western Pacific, where Japan is located.Is it a new opium war?Criticized.
Experts analyze that it is meaningful for key countries of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO), such as Britain, France, and Germany, to send battleships to the Indo-Pacific. The US is envisioning Quad Plus, which expands the quad. If NATO officially participates here, Quad Plus will expand to a global security council centered on the United States.
Shin Beom-cheol, director of the Center for Foreign Affairs and Security at the Institute for Economics and Social Affairs, said, “Europe may have been encouraged by the US, but it must have felt the need to check China, which does not recognize a liberal international order.remote Europe is also moving, but Korea is trying to move away from the Quad because of China’s notice.“He said. He said, “If you don’t join the quad, there is a concern that Korea will eventually fall into the US’s’second-class ally’. This is a loss of leverage in China.”
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