America and Japan seek to deploy a missile system to support Taiwan – Mehr News Agency RCO News Agency

According to Mehr news agency, quoted by Reuters news agency, the US is trying to have a stronger military presence in East Asia in line with the policy of containment against China.

Based on this, the Japanese news agency Kyodo, quoting American and Japanese informed sources who did not want to be named, announced that Washington and Tokyo, as two strategic partners, are planning to formulate a joint military plan for Taiwan in emergency situations. Based on Those missile defense systems should be deployed to support this island in East Asia.

These sources add: Based on This plan, which is expected to be implemented from next month, the United States will deploy its missile units in the Nancy Islands in the southwest of the province. Kagoshima and Okinawa Japan and also in the Philippine Islands near Taiwan.

Kyodo News Agency claims that under this military plan, the US Navy is armed with missiles Himars and other heavy weapons to be stationed in the Nancy Islands. A unit of Air, Cyber, and Electronic Warfare (Jungle) forces will also be stationed in the Philippines.

In 2011, Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State at the time, spoke of America’s turning to the East to implement a policy of containment against China.

John Mersheimerthe biggest strategist Currently, the world believes that China is now one of the great powers in the international system the international has become and seeks to establish regional hegemony in East Asia. However, the United States must now adopt the same containment policy as against the Soviet Union in the Cold War apply Win, to be used against China now.

Mersheimer It is believed that there is a possibility of a direct military confrontation between the US and China in the South China Sea, disputed islands between Beijing and Tokyo in the East China Sea, and the island of Taiwan.