On Wednesday, Japan's Sankei Shimbun reported that Japan has decided to carry out defense facilities construction and defense deployment work on Mamao Island to use the island as an operational training base for US aircraft carrier-based aircraft and a training base for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces; Japanese media said that this decision was finalized at the "2+2" talks between the US and Japanese defense ministers this month, and Japan has begun to prepare a special budget of more than 300 billion yen for the construction and upgrading of military facilities on Mamao Island At this stage, the plan is that the island will be built with two new airfield runways, one long and one short, to meet the take-off and landing of major US warplanes and strategic transport aircraft, so as to achieve rapid response and rapid troop delivery of US troops.
As a matter of fact Japan has spent 16 billion yen (about $146 million) to defend the island in 2019 to obtain the right to use and own the island; the reason why the island is so valued by the United States and Japan is because it is located in the northeast of the East China Sea, belongs to the Osumi Islands, and is the gateway to the Osumi Strait, which is of great strategic significance; the Japanese media pointed out that the Osumi Strait is the shortest route for our maritime ships to enter the western Pacific from East Asia, so the United States and Japan militarized the island and introduced the US military and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces It will fill the defense gap between the United States and Japan between the Japanese mainland and the southwestern outlying islands (the Ryukyu Islands), and at the same time fill the defense gap in the entire first island chain, so as to ensure that China's defense forces will be contained in the first island chain.
Although the pace of militarization of the island by the United States and Japan only began in 2019, when Japan wanted to relocate the land take-off and landing base of the US aircraft carrier aircraft, so it made Mamao Island and the neighboring Tanegashima Island a candidate site; in fact, as early as 14 years ago, in 2008, the United States and Japan had intended to build Mamao Island into an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" as an important fulcrum to curb Our defense forces; this is because Mamao Island also has a stealth strategic value: It and Shanghai are roughly at the same latitude, and the straight-line distance from Shanghai is less than 900 kilometers, so American fighters, such as F-35 fighters, can fly to Shanghai in 1 hour from the island; that is, such a short geographical distance, such a short arrival time of fighters, which means that once the island is used as a fulcrum, then F-35 and other stealth fighters are enough to launch a surprise blow to our economic powerhouse and economic hinterland; this also shows that Obviously, the purpose of the United States and Japan is not only to trap our defense forces in the first island chain, but also to ensure that it can pose a strong threat and deterrent to Our economic powerhouse.
In addition, in late December 2021, Japan's Kyodo News Agency also disclosed such a news, saying that the United States and Japan have formulated a draft US-Japan joint operation plan around the sudden changes that may occur in the Southeast Strait of China, and the main content of the joint operation plan is that the US military will use 40 islands or locations in the Ryukyu Islands, including the Osumi Islands, as military bases, to launch an attack at a critical moment and start an intervention operation; and on the 15th of this month, the Sankei Shimbun also revealed that the United States and Japan believe that they can guide and intervene in the war. Ammunition with precision strike capability is the key to breaking our side's "anti-access" tactical system, so the United States and Japan are currently discussing the selection of points in the Ryukyu Islands, including the Osumi Islands, especially the Senjima Islands (South Ryukyu Islands) near the southeast strait of China, to jointly reserve ammunition; combined with these two pieces of information, it will be found that the United States and Japan will be only 900 kilometers away from China's economic hinterland, and Mamao Island, located in the Osumi Islands, will be built as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier", which is obviously also the so-called "joint intervention" formulated by the two sides (Intervention) combat" is an important part of it.