The situation is not good, the commander of the US military has explained that he will deploy medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region and deter China by name.
Recently, Flynn, commander of the US Pacific Army, announced in a high-profile interview with Japanese media that the US Army plans to deploy a new type of medium-range missile launcher in the Asia-Pacific region by the end of this year "to deter China." This is also the first time that a senior US military official has made public the deployment of medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region. It can be seen from this that the United States now wants to deal with the mainland, and the last fig leaf is gone. One of the main reasons why the United States now dares to admit with great fanfare that it wants to deploy intermediate-range missiles on China's doorstep is that the United States withdrew from the relevant treaty restricting intermediate-range missiles, that is, the 1987 "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty" reached between the United States and the Soviet Union, which prohibits the United States and the Soviet Union from possessing ground-launched intermediate-range ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the treaty remained in force between the United States and Russia, the largest successor to the Soviet Union. It is understood that after the United States announced the suspension of the treaty in February 2019, Russia announced the suspension of participation in July of the same year. Withdrawing from the INF Treaty gave the United States the opportunity to deploy missiles.
Although Flynn did not disclose the name of the missile launch system, there is information that it may be a land-based "Taifeng" system, which is reported to be capable of launching Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of more than 1,600 kilometers and new SM-6 interceptor missiles. In fact, this answer is not difficult to guess at all, as far as the current US Biden administration in the Asia-Pacific region of various military trends, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia is very likely to be the object of its choice, choose Japan and South Korea, can help the United States in the peninsula situation to contain North Korea, China, if deployed in the southwest islands of Japan, can form a full coverage of the eastern coast of Chinese mainland. The Philippines and Australia can contain China in the South China Sea. It is worth mentioning that just before Flynn released the above news, there was news that the Japanese and US governments officially signed a package contract for the purchase of American-made "Tomahawk" cruise missiles from 2025 to 2027, and Japan is ready to purchase up to 400 "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, including 200 missiles with anti-ship capabilities and a range of more than 1,600 kilometers, mainly for large warships such as aircraft carriers. At that time, some analysts believed that Japan's move was intended to target Chinese aircraft carriers.
In recent years, the United States has suppressed and contained China, which can be said to have reached a frenzied level, and even did not hesitate to "loosen" Japan's military ties, and this is exactly in line with the wishes of Japan's Kishida Fumio government, and Japan's purchase of "Tomahawk" cruise missiles is another manifestation of its breakthrough in "exclusive defense" and getting rid of the "pacifist constitution", because the "Tomahawk" is an offensive weapon that gives Japan the so-called "counterattack capability." According to the equipment plan announced by the Japanese Ministry of Defense, all of these 400 "Tomahawks" will be deployed to the Aegis ships of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, and if a Japanese destroyer carrying a 1,600-kilometer range "Tomahawk" cruise missile launches missiles from the East China Sea, then the entire east China, north China, and central China, and most of Northeast China and South China will be within range.
Judging from the news released by the United States and Japan one after another, the authenticity of the news announced by the US military commander this time is still very large. Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of the Mainland, clearly pointed out that the US push to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Japan is a dangerous move that will seriously threaten the security of regional countries and seriously undermine regional peace and stability, and China resolutely opposes the deployment of intermediate-range missiles by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. If the US side insists on deploying, it is a provocation at China's "doorstep", and China will never sit idly by and take all necessary measures to resolutely counteract. Recently, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning also explicitly urged the US to earnestly respect the security concerns of other countries and stop undermining regional peace and stability. At the same time, she stressed that China adheres to the path of peaceful development and firmly pursues a defensive national defense policy, and we have no interest in competing with any country in terms of military strength, and China has always resolutely opposed the deployment of medium-range missiles by the United States in the Asia-Pacific region in order to seek unilateral military superiority, and strengthened forward deployment at China's doorstep.