Containing China, Nobuo Kishi: The Rim Pacific military exercise held the first Japan-US “Existing Crisis Situation” exercise. (European News Agency, synthesized by this newspaper.)
2022/08/08 19:41
[Commissioner Lin Cuiyi in Japan/Reported by Tokyo on the 8th]Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi confirmed today that Japan and the United States will conduct joint exercises on the “existing crisis situation” for the first time in the “Rim of the Pacific Military Exercise” (RIMPAC) held this year. The time is 7 Between the 29th of August and the 3rd of August. Since the communist army launched a live-fire exercise around Taiwan on August 4, the time was extremely sensitive, and five of the missiles were fired into Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Regarding whether this “existing crisis situation” exercise script is applicable to Taiwan, Michael Boyle, commander of the Pacific Rim military exercise and commander of the US Navy’s 3rd Fleet, said in an interview with the Asahi Shimbun, “This will improve the All military responses, including Taiwan.”
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The Pacific Rim military exercise is hosted by the U.S. Navy and is held every two years around the Hawaiian Islands. It is also the world’s largest multi-national joint military exercise. It is mainly to ensure the safety of sea passages and joint counter-terrorism of countries along the Pacific coast. This year’s event will be held on June 29 From August 4 to August 4, a total of 26 countries around the world participated, and more than 25,000 people were mobilized.
This year, Japan sent the largest quasi-navigation ship “Izumo” (DDH-183) and frigate “Takaba” (DD-110) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, as well as the Western Front of the Ground Self-Defense Force to participate. When Lu Zizai participated in 2018, he first dispatched an anti-ship missile unit to conduct a live-fire exercise with the US military. This year’s focus is on the first drill on Japan’s “existing crisis situation”.
“Existing crisis situation” is a crisis level classified by Japan’s peace and security legal system enacted in 2015. It is second only to “armed attack situation”. It is also one of the conditions under which Japan can exercise the right of collective self-defense to a limited extent. When an armed attack threatens Japan’s existential crisis, Japan can identify it as an “existential crisis situation” and invoke the right to collective self-defense.
Nobuo Kishi announced to the media at a press conference after today’s cabinet meeting that Japan and the United States conducted the “Existential Crisis Situation” exercise in the Pacific Rim military exercise for the first time this year. He said that this was a scripted exercise to use force, but due to confidentiality issues, Nobuo Kishi did not disclose the details of the exercise. However, he also emphasized that he will continue to participate in such training in the future and is committed to the effective application of the rule of law in peace and security.
In addition, after the communist army launched a live-fire exercise to surround Taiwan, the Japanese think tank “Japan Forum for Strategic Studies” (JFSS) also held a military push on Taiwan on the 6th and 7th, and set 3 sets of scripts including the communist army’s simultaneous attack on Taiwan and Taiwan. The attack on the Senkaku Islands (Diaoyutai Islands), the response to the asylum of Japanese nationals and Japanese nationals in Taiwan, and the threat of China’s nuclear weapons. This is the second time that the think tank has held a military push on Taiwan. The military push also revealed Japan’s imminent sense of tension in the context of the communist army’s live-fire drills around Taiwan to increase the military threat.
Japan’s Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi confirmed that Japan and the United States will conduct joint exercises on “existing crisis situations” for the first time in this year’s Rim of the Pacific Military Exercise (RIMPAC). (European News Agency file photo)
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