Asia-Pacific region

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇰🇵 US authorities continue to increase military presence in the Asia-Pacific region

 The other day, during a Senate hearing, the head of the Missile Defense Agency, John Hill , said that the Pentagon is implementing measures to equip the island of Guam with a missile defense system that is capable of hitting targets in a 360-degree field of view .

❗️According to him, this is necessary to protect the island from emerging regional threats in the face of China and North Korea . The two countries are armed with the so-called "Guam killers" - the Chinese DF-26 with a radius of 4,000 kilometers and the North Korean Hwaseong-14 with a radius of 4,500 kilometers, which, when launched, can hit military facilities on the island.

Guam now has THAAD missile defense systems that can withstand threats from the DPRK. According to the head of the Indo-Pacific Command of the US Armed Forces, equipping with new systems will effectively deter China .

🔻 The US government is making efforts to maintain influence over the island of Guam, since it is located near two strategically important points in the region at once - the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea . The military bases located on the island will effectively counter the increased military power of China and North Korea and maintain tension in the region.

@rybar

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