New settlements in the Asia-Pacific region
New military maneuvers in Asia-Pacific, the region that according to analysts is preparing to become the next theater of clash between the two major world economies: the United States and China. The Japanese military aeronautics (ASDF) began to deploy the stealth f-35b hunting of US manufacturing in the south-west of the country, ready to be used on their aircraft carriers. The planes flew from the island of Guam in the Pacific, at the Nyutabaru air base, in the prefecture of Miyazaki, with the ASDF that plans to acquire a total of 42 F-35B, for a total of 4.2 billion euros, and to line up eight in the base by March.
The training flights scheduled for jets – which can take off from short slopes and land vertically, points out the Japanese press, have already aroused the protests of the residents, annoyed by the resulting noise. The exercises, in fact, were initially foreseen on the uninhabited island of Mage, in the prefecture of Kagoshima, after the completion of a base of the self -defense forces equipped with special slopes for the aircraft but, due to delays in construction, the Ministry of Defense in February transferred the training site to Nyutobaru. In this regard, the governor of Miyazaki, Shunji Kono, expressed his disappointment for “the absence of measures to relieve the burden on local residents”. As part of the current defense strategy, to counter Beijing’s expansionism – that the White House sees as a threat to its hegemony, Tokyo is ready to spend about 10,000 billion yen (61.6 billion euros) per year, thus becoming the third country in the world for military spending after the United States and China.
