The United States and Japan held a bilateral summit on April 10, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a "state visit" to the United States on April 8, during which he held an official meeting with the U.S. president. The bilateral summit between the United States and Japan has become a "crusade" against China, because both US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida have pointed the finger at China in many areas, and the scope of the talks has included the East China Sea, the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Both Biden and Fumio Kishida have reiterated the so-called "no unilateral change of the status quo", so there is already an aggressive posture, and the United States and Japan have also agreed to establish a joint US-Japan-Australia anti-missile system to counter the threat from China.
At the time of the bilateral summit between the United States and Japan, the U.S. military stationed in the Ryukyus has begun to show off its activities, so it has a rhythm to show China, according to the official website of the U.S. military Kadena base in the Ryukyus, the U.S. Air Force held a "elephant walk" of fighters on April 10, judging from the published photos, the U.S. Air Force used F-22A Raptor fighters, F-35A Lightning II fighters, F-15C/D Eagle fighters, F-16C/ D Fighting Falcon fighters, as well as the rest of the KC-135R air tankers, E-3 watchtower AWACS aircraft, MC-130J special transport aircraft, MQ-9 UAVs and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters participated in the event.
Originally, the U.S. Air Force permanently deployed F-15C/D fighters at the Kadena base, but now it has arranged for the long-term deployment of F-35A and F-22A fighters to enhance the deterrence capability of the U.S. military stationed in the Ryukyus. The Kadena base is the largest airport facility in the United States in the first island chain, which can meet the use of all types of aircraft of the US military, including the take-off and landing of C-5M large military transport aircraft. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy often rely on the Kadena base to engage in deterrent operations against China, including the use of RC-135 strategic reconnaissance aircraft and P-8A maritime anti-submarine patrol aircraft to approach China, and it is also a military base for U.S. allies to contain China, and Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have anti-submarine aircraft deployed at the Kadena base.
At a time when the United States and Japan are increasing the depth of military cooperation, the US Air Force has shown its sharp fangs, in fact, the US Air Force has not only deployed fifth-generation fighters at the Kadena base, but also recently deployed F-35A fighters at the Iwakuni base in Japan. The use of fifth-generation fighter jets to put pressure on China has become a daily operation of the US Air Force, and the United States has also armed Japan and South Korea and provided F-35 fighter jets, thus forming a fifth-generation fighter encirclement of China. At a time when the United States and Japan were closely linked, the United States wanted to use elephant walks to show the strength of the U.S. Air Force.
In fact, from a geographical point of view, the U.S. Air Force cannot show off through the Kadena base in the Ryukyus, because it is within the deterrent range of the PLA's Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missile, and the PLA can make a runway at the Kadena base incapacitated. The U.S. military Kadena base has two parallel runways, so the PLA only needs a few Dongfeng 17 hypersonic missiles, can make the Kadena base lose its deterrent capability, the US Air Force's so-called "forward deployment" is actually the "soft underbelly" of the US Air Force, so the so-called elephant walk is just to give the US Air Force its own courage, without any substantive significance, the PLA Dongfeng 17 superb bomb can be counter-killed.