Clearly, Beijing seems very keen to show off its newly acquired naval power to its neighbors, and especially to those who do not hunker down enough to satisfy the ambitions of the Indo-Pacific superpower. Indeed, after having increased the number of major naval exercises near the island of Taiwan, it is now Japan's turn to take advantage of the force deployments of the Chinese fleet, in this case with Liaoning Aircraft Carrier Carrier Strike Group Deploys Again in Miyako Strait, and on the outskirts of the island of Diaoyu (Chinese name) in the Senkaku archipelago, which Beijing contests as belonging to Tokyo.
This deployment of force comes as the Japanese authorities have recently taken firmer positions vis-à-vis Beijing, in authorizing US forces to use their bases on Japanese soil to intervene in support of the Taiwanese forces in the event of an attempted invasion led by the People's Liberation Army. Until now, the Japanese authorities had always followed a neutral policy vis-à-vis Beijing, based on the mutually beneficial agreements of co-exploitation of the fishery and mining resources of the Senkaku archipelago, negotiated in its time. by Deng Xiaoping and Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda in the late 70s.
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