Although the Chinese and US defense ministers met face-to-face at the incense meeting, the indo-Pacific situation did not ease. According to global network news, the United States is recently holding intensive military exercises around China, and the US aircraft carriers "Reagan" and "Lincoln" and a lightning aircraft carrier ,"Tripoli" amphibious assault ship arrived in the East China Sea and held relevant exercises in the waters around Guam.
The United States has recently held two major large-scale military exercises in the Indo-Pacific region, namely "Brave Shield-2022" and "Rim of the Pacific" exercise, although these two exercises have not specified the target, but the US media has bluntly stated that it is a warning to China. Among them, "Brave Shield-2022" has been officially launched since the 6th of this month until the end of the 18th of this month, which is a routine exercise held by the US military every two years, and this year's exercise has three points worth paying attention to. First of all, from the perspective of the scale of the exercise, the number of participants in this year's "Brave Shield" military exercise is as high as 13,000 people, which includes almost all branches of the US military, and there is no foreign army joining in the whole process, and the US military completes the exercise alone, and the US military will not hide it during the exercise, so this is also the military exercise with the highest degree of actual combat in the Indo-Pacific region.
Judging from the location of the exercise, almost without exception, the location of the "Brave Shield" exercise has been selected near Guam, which is the rear of the US military's first island chain and an important support point for the second island chain. The US military's choice to conduct large-scale real-combat exercises here is actually a practice of how to carry out sea blockades.
Judging from the content of the exercise, there is a point of particular concern this year, the US military will conduct a live-fire test of the "Patriot" anti-missile system at the Palau base. The analysis believes that the US military's move is aimed at strengthening anti-missile capabilities within the scope of the second island chain. Although the US military has deployed a number of military bases in the first and second island chains, these military bases are fixed targets, and most of them lack depth, which is a living target of the PLA Rocket Force in wartime. In the past, the United States could only strengthen the air defense capabilities of these military bases by deploying sea surface ships near these military bases, but the US military is becoming more and more aware that the PLA's medium- and long-range strike capabilities and anti-ship capabilities are becoming more and more mature, and relying on these sea surface ships alone is completely insufficient, so the US military is accelerating the deployment of ground anti-missile forces at these military bases.
It can be seen that the "Brave Shield" exercise, whether in terms of location, content or scale, is aimed at China. In addition to this highly meaningful exercise, the US military will also organize more than 20 countries to launch this year's "Rim of the Pacific" exercise from the end of this month. Unlike the Brave Shield, the exercise has more political significance than military significance.
The US-led "Rim of the Pacific" exercise also has two points of view. First, in this exercise, the United States invited the Pacific island nation of Tonga to participate for the first time, and the United States did so in an attempt to offset China's influence among Pacific island countries. Second, in this exercise, Japan will send the Izumo aircraft carrier to participate. It is reported that the "Izumo" has completed the transformation, and the deck can withstand the take-off and landing of fixed-wing carrier-based aircraft, which also means that in this exercise, the United States may use the pretext of strengthening cooperation to let the US F-35B land on the deck of the "Izumo". Japan, as a defeated country, should not have such offensive weapons as aircraft carriers, and in order to hide its eyes and ears, Japan called the "Izumo" a helicopter frigate, in fact, in addition to the tonnage is smaller than that of ordinary aircraft carriers, there is basically no difference between the "Izumo" and ordinary aircraft carriers.
Overall, RIMPAC is still exerting military pressure on China under the guise of strengthening regional military exchanges. THE US media CNN is even more blunt that the US military's move is to curb China's growing influence in the Indo-Pacific region.
Judging from the results, the meeting between the Chinese and US defense ministers at the incense meeting did not ease the sino-US game at the military level, and the tone of the United States wanting to militarily contain China is getting higher and higher. But the more hysterical the United States is, the more it shows that the United States is short of gas. No matter how many military exercises the United States conducts, it cannot change the established fact that China is no longer afraid of US military provocations and is fully capable of dealing a devastating blow to the military forces deployed by the United States around China. The Chinese side said bluntly earlier that friends came with good wine, and jackals came with shotguns.