Saying one thing and doing another has long become a habitual method in the United States. The United States is currently conducting a number of military operations in the Indo-Pacific region, including the deployment of intermediate-range missiles into the Philippines, and the deployment of a U.S. missile contingent on the Philippine island of North Luzon, which has a range of more than 1,600 kilometers, and has covered the entire area south of Shanghai on the mainland. The United States has repeatedly pointed its sword at China and pressed China step by step, but the US Secretary of Defense recently had a video call with the mainland defense minister. It is understood that on the evening of 16 April, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made a telephone call to China, and the Taiwan issue was once again emphasized in the current defense ministers' dialogue, and the Chinese side pointed out that the Taiwan issue is the core of China's core interests, and the United States should clearly recognize China's firm position, but just after the Chinese and US defense ministers hung up the phone, the United States quickly issued a provocation on the Taiwan issue, and the US P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane carried out an operation to fly around Taiwan Island.
The US Navy has deployed a fairly large number of P-8A anti-submarine patrol planes at the Kadena base in Okinawa, the first island chain, and these anti-submarine planes have long been conducting high-intensity reconnaissance operations at the mainland's doorstep. P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft often complete the Bass Strait and then enter the South China Sea, of course, the United States will also let these P-8As in the South China Sea with the cooperation of the MQ-4C Poseidon UAV to conduct high-intensity reconnaissance operations in the South China Sea. Judging from the ADS-B broadcast automatic surveillance system and the information disclosed by the Taiwan media, on 17 April, a US P-8A antisubmarine patrol plane entered the mainland's air defense identification zone in the East China Sea after taking off from the Kadena base, and finally crossed the Taiwan Strait from north to south, and left the South China Sea from the Bashi Strait.
The U.S. Navy's P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft carry a wide variety of reconnaissance equipment and are capable of completing a variety of reconnaissance missions, including coastal search, surveillance of surface ships, and even direct anti-ship strikes. The US Navy is now sending P-8A anti-submarine patrol planes to cross the Taiwan Strait, in fact, it is more to provoke China and at the same time to support the island, because these P-8A anti-submarine patrol planes will fly with a fixed flight trajectory when crossing the Taiwan Strait.
In the past few days, PLA military planes have been constantly approaching Taiwan Island to carry out combat patrols, and at the critical moment when the US military gave the PLA eye medicine, Taiwan media pointed out that a large number of PLA military planes quickly came out to monitor the P-8A anti-submarine patrol plane. Although the US military has carried out unscrupulous provocations in the Taiwan Strait, since the US military planes have not violated the mainland's territorial airspace, in fact the PLA has no way to shoot down the US military planes by opening fire, and it is precisely because of this that the US military has nothing to fear in such provocative actions.
In fact, a large number of Russian military planes have also been patrolling the US border for a long time, and the United States has no way to take these Russian military planes, in addition to the flying fighter planes in the air, the United States also cannot shoot down these Russian military planes, and this is now the most headache for the PLA, although the Chinese and US military planes have had many close exchanges in the air, and the PLA has also given the US military a little color to see, but the United States is still in some gray areas constantly playing side balls. Text/Iris