The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet held a large-scale ceremony on May 16 to bid farewell to the USS Ronald Reagan CVN76, with the participation of U.S. and U.S. officials abroad, as well as officials from the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Nine years after the Reagan was deployed in Japan, it began its voyage back to the continental United States, but now it seems that the U.S. military has quite a rhythm of not allowing the PLA to exert pressure, because it is at the stage when Lai Qingde is about to take office, the U.S. military is a false shot, and the Reagan has not yet moved away. According to satellite photos taken on May 18, the USS Ronald Reagan is still loitering in the waters near Japan, and there are no carrier-based aircraft taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier, apparently waiting for a suitable time.
For the combat deployment of the USS Reagan aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy also has a carrier-based air wing deployed in Japan, so it is now necessary to evacuate from Japan, and the return of the carrier-based air wing to the US mainland is also a very large move. The overseas deployment of the US military, many officers are "dragging their families with their mouths", and there are many allowances for overseas deployment, especially in Japan, which is relatively more comfortable, so the US Navy is very fond of serving in the Asia-Pacific region. When the Reagan was evacuated, it was only able to carry part of the equipment and personnel of the carrier-based aircraft force, and the rest of the ground equipment and personnel required the transportation of large ro-ro ships and large military transport aircraft, so it was a very cumbersome and time-consuming operation.
The recent actions of the US Navy are very strange, because at the same time that the Reagan left Japan, another aircraft carrier, the CVN 71 Roosevelt, had arrived in Singapore on the 16th. It has already been said that the Reagan is not far away, and the United States is still trying to put pressure on the PLA through the deployment of aircraft carriers, so as to force the PLA not to take drastic actions in the near future. As a matter of fact, US officials have already made it clear that the United States wants to maintain the so-called "status quo in the Taiwan Strait" and have already expressed dissatisfaction with the PLA's patrols in the sea and airspace around Taiwan Island, and for this reason, there was a scene in which an Aegis missile destroyer was used to intrude into the Taiwan Strait on 8 May.
So far, the U.S. Navy has maintained the deployment of twin aircraft carriers in the Asia-Pacific region, judging from the data released by the United States, each aircraft carrier can carry 50 fixed-wing carrier-based fighters, so the two aircraft carriers have 100 fighters deployed on a scale of scale, so as to establish a strong deterrent capability, from a worldwide point of view, there are not many countries with 100 fighters, and the United States can also be overpowered by the combat deployment of aircraft carriers, and aircraft carriers are important equipment for the United States to achieve maritime hegemony. Now, when it is encircling and containing China, the United States is also using the deterrent capability of aircraft carriers.
The U.S. Navy announced the withdrawal of the Reagan, but it still maintained a patrol mission near Japan, and the analysis of the Global Beacon Line believes that the U.S. Navy is supporting the DPP authorities on Taiwan Island. Judging from the long-term strategy of the United States, when Lai Qingde takes office, the United States is bound to make moves. The United States is actually hollowing out the "one-China policy" and will carry out military deterrence at China's doorstep for this purpose, and now the United States is no longer pretending, and the wandering of the USS Reagan aircraft carrier in the waters east of Japan has already explained the intention of the United States, and the United States has been playing tricks for a long time, and the so-called withdrawal is now just a ceremony, and the Reagan has not completely left the jurisdiction of the Seventh Fleet.