Tokyo Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan raises tensions in East Asia. But the crisis is just the latest example of growing tensions in the region, as evidenced by the number of maneuvers. Chinese and Russian warships and planes were still circling US allies Japan in June. However, Japan and Korea are by no means passive in the face of such displays of power. They are demonstrating with their own maneuvers that they do not want to accept the military-strategic supremacy of China and Russia in their region of the world.
These exercises show a trend: the USA, Japan and South Korea are counting on junior partners participating more in military operations. And the military potential that the East Asian industrial nations bring to the Asian balance of power is considerable, as a look at their defense policy shows.
US forces in Japan and South Korea
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