On the eve of the Spring Festival holiday, three aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military appeared in the Asia-Pacific region, pointing to the Beijing Winter Olympics and ASEAN negotiations, intending to teach China a "good lesson" in the South China Sea. But relying only on a few aircraft carriers wants to intimidate China, is the US military strength in the Asia-Pacific really qualified?
With the arrival of China's most important traditional festival, the Spring Festival, about half a month away, the United States and other Western countries are still in a state of repression. In addition to drafting joint military exercises with Allies such as Japan, the United States also intends to continue to make a fuss about the Beijing Winter Olympics to leave a "deep impression" on the Chinese New Year. According to the News of the Global Network on January 15, the US Navy's "Carl Vinson" aircraft carrier battle group has entered the South China Sea. In addition, the US Navy's "Lincoln" aircraft carrier battle group also departed from the USs naval base in San Diego and is expected to arrive in the Asia-Pacific sea in the near future. The ussan Reagan, which is being repaired and maintained at the Yokosuka military port of the Japanese Seventh Fleet, is also expected to complete a rest mission in the near future, and once out of the port, it will go to the South China Sea to meet two other aircraft carrier battle groups to form a large aircraft carrier task force. As for the United States' choice to form an aircraft carrier task force in the South China Sea on the eve of China's Spring Festival, the outside world generally believes that the two major ambitions of the United States have been completely exposed.
The first purpose: the sword refers to ASEAN. At present Chinese mainland and ASEAN are currently in consultation on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. Once China and ASEAN complete the negotiations on the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea and reach a consensus, then the United States will be completely passive in stirring up the situation in the South China Sea, and it will no longer be able to play the "South China Sea card" against China, and even in the end, the United States may be "kicked out" directly from the South China Sea. Therefore, this time the US aircraft carrier battle group came uninvited, on the one hand, to put pressure on ASEAN countries, on the other hand, to build a "blockade line" to encircle the Chinese mainland from both sea and air.
The second purpose: the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition to taking the lead in refusing to sign the Olympic armistice agreement, the United States also insisted on not sending an official delegation to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics and co-opted the Three Countries to make small moves. If the United States openly conducts military exercises during the Beijing Winter Olympics, it is undoubtedly intending to exert military pressure on China in a vain attempt to impact China's international influence, after all, this kind of routine and trick is also the usual use of the United States.
It should be noted that the biggest difference between the three nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the US Navy and the previously deployed nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is the carrier-based aircraft. At this stage, the U.S. Naval Aviation Corps has begun to equip the F-35C stealth carrier-based fighter on a large scale, and the equipment of this new carrier-based aircraft has significantly improved the overall combat performance of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and it is also one of the core factors to ensure the battlefield superiority of the US military and strengthen the US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. In fact, through this US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier carrying a new type of carrier-based aircraft to cruise the Asia-Pacific region, it is not difficult to see that the ultimate goal of the United States is to constantly provoke regional tensions in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait region, and to further strengthen the containment and suppression of China by "ringing the drum of war" at this special time node of the Chinese Spring Festival. But just a few nuclear-powered aircraft carriers want to intimidate China in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and is the military strength of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region qualified enough?
As far as the current situation is concerned, the US military has gathered heavy troops in the Asia-Pacific region with such fanfare to hold joint military exercises, and in addition to wasting fuel and ammunition, it will also continue to aggravate tensions in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and the slightest carelessness may lead to a misfire. And once a military confrontation between China and the United States breaks out due to certain factors, the US military will inevitably pay a heavy price. Because even the US military and think tanks admit that in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the Taiwan Strait region, the US military will not be an opponent of the PLA at all.
On the contrary, the PLA relies on the indigenous combat system, and with the support of the Rocket Force's medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, the Air Force's shore-based aviation, and the Navy's long-range air defense and anti-ship missile systems, it can make the US combat forces and Asia-Pacific military bases vulnerable. Especially in the Asia-Pacific region, is not the aircraft carrier battle group cruising in the Asia-Pacific region the best "living target"? If the U.S. military also plans to mobilize more aircraft carriers, or wants to pull Japan and Australia into the chariot, then the PLA also has the ability to make them accept "skyfall justice" again, so that the United States can steal chickens and eat a handful of rice. Therefore, the three major aircraft carrier battle groups of the US military have traveled thousands of miles to the Asia-Pacific region, which is not so much a deterrent to China as it is a bluff of self-encouragement.