Following the military exercise around Taiwan, the PLA's Shandong aircraft carrier fleet approached the depths of the Pacific Ocean and approached the US base on Guam. Scholars on the island pointed out that the PLA's ace carrier-based fighter J-15 will play a key role in aircraft carrier air support and protection, and the mainland will develop new carrier-based aircraft to prevent the US Navy from intervening in the Taiwan Strait.
As everyone knows, the Taiwan issue is still the culprit of the undercurrent, pointing to the continuous interference of the United States in China's internal affairs. During the PLA's military exercise around Taiwan Island, the US military "crossed" into the waters around Taiwan, and the US Navy's aircraft carrier Nimitz was only more than 200 nautical miles away from the Shandong ship, and this "dangerous distance" plunged the situation between the Chinese and US militaries into a tense situation. But as the PLA's area denial exercise began, news of the Nimitz's retreat followed. The main purpose of the PLA's military exercise around the island is precisely to warn the United States of the tragic cost to the US military if "free navigation" in China's coastal waters will be. In the first round of the PLA's joint firepower exercise, it covered simulated attacks on land-based, sea-based and air-based anti-ship missiles, three-dimensional strikes in the face of sea, land and air anti-ship missiles, plus killer Dongfeng-21D, DF-26 ballistic missiles and Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missiles, once a conflict occurs, it will bring a huge blow to the Nimitz. This strongly undermined the confidence of the US military in provoking the PLA near Taiwan Island, and the US military lost the first battle in the psychological game. In the conflict with the PLA in the waters far from the US mainland, the US Navy cannot take any advantage, and the PLA military exercise around Taiwan Island has also released a signal to the world; even the US aircraft carrier strike group, which occupies an absolute leading position in the world, does not dare to act rashly when meeting the ranks of the Chinese PLA, and smashes Japan and other countries that have openly clamored to intervene in the conflict in the Taiwan Strait, as well as the Philippines, which recently launched joint military exercises with the United States.
After the actual combat exercise to blockade the eastern part of Taiwan Island, the PLA aircraft carrier continued to advance to the eastern Pacific Ocean. According to the observation data of Japan's Self-Defense Forces, the Shandong aircraft carrier group consists of one 055 destroyer, one 052D guided-missile destroyer, two 054A frigates and one large rapid support ship, with a total tonnage of more than 100,000 tons, galloping towards the eastern Pacific Ocean and reaching the western waters of Guam, with a distance of about 500-600 kilometers, bringing Guam into the effective strike range of J-15 carrier-based aircraft. Shu Xiaohuang, a scholar at a Taiwanese think tank, believes that the J-15, as the only carrier-based fighter currently in service on the mainland, is responsible for providing key support for the combat power of the ship's aviation, and the mainland navy has the ambition to expand to blue water, and is bound to develop another type of new carrier-based aircraft.
The Guam base is a key strategic fulcrum of the US military in the Western Pacific combat system, with complete military reserve facilities, and strong military support for the US Navy to carry out military operations. Moreover, the situation on Guam is more special, and the US military is trying to increase the difficulty and cost of China's attack on Guam through distance suppression. At this time, the Shandong ship approached Guam, which fully demonstrated that the PLA had enough strength to launch a fatal attack on the Guam base.
After the PLA aircraft carrier broke through the first island chain from the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan Island, the Philippine Islands, and the Malay Peninsula, the target was Guam, the key node of the second island chain, and the trip to Guam blocked the air and sea supremacy of the United States from Guam to the western Pacific to the South China Sea to Taiwan Island. Step by step, it will dismantle the US military's naval layout in the Asia-Pacific region and smash the "wishful thinking" of the United States in vainly trying to intervene militarily on the mainland in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. This move has also greatly enhanced the PLA's strategic initiative, and it is also a countermeasure to the US military's maritime hegemony, affecting the US strategy in the entire Asia-Pacific region, and even shaking the US hegemonic position.
Even if after the PLA military exercise, the US military continued to move south and entered the waters of the South China Sea, but this is a week after the PLA ended the "United Sword" military exercise, and it can be seen from the time that the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group is afraid of the PLA, whether from the consideration of the PLA's strength or from the horror consequences of the Sino-US conflict to all relevant parties, the US military does not dare to take action lightly.
Adhering to the strategic idea of "the enemy retreats and we advance," the Shandong aircraft carrier fleet plunged directly into the waters near the US base in Guam and had not yet returned to the exercise, and the Liaoning aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy entered a certain sea area in the western Pacific Ocean to carry out various combat exercises. China's response to US provocations has a tendency to "forge ahead." This has actually formed a sustained deterrent for the US military strategic deployment in the Pacific region, effectively deterring the attempts of the United States, Japan and other countries to intervene in the situation in the Taiwan Strait by force. The U.S. operational plan to decide to intervene militarily in the Taiwan Strait conflict could not be realized before, and now at a time when China's naval military strength is gradually growing and its wings are gradually full, it is even more difficult to move towards reality.