Japan s Master Plan to Defeat China in a War
How Japan can defeat China without catching up.
In recent years, significant attention has been paid to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). China’s defense budget, which has increased ten fold in the last twenty five years, has funded the construction of a modern, ocean-going navy. This includes the recently fielded aircraft carrier,
Liaoning, as well as fleets of destroyers, frigates, corvettes, replenishment ships, and amphibious assault ships.
The PLAN is indeed an impressive force, but local geography will create challenges during wartime. Japan controls a string of islands that form the Miyako Strait, which Chinese naval forces must transit to enter the western Pacific. Properly fortified, the Japanese-held Ryukyu Islands could conceivably block passage of the Strait altogether.
Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning on way to Pacific Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning on way to Pacific Tuesday, 06 April 2021 11:31
According to information published by Nikkei Asia on April 6, 2021, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and five escort vessels have passed through a key waterway off Japan on their way to the Pacific Ocean.
(Picture source: Twitter account of Henri Kenhmann)
The carrier group was spotted around 8 a.m. Saturday roughly 470 km southwest of Nagasaki Prefecture s Danjo Islands, the joint staff said. The convoy then passed through the Miyako Strait, the 250 km-wide waterway between Okinawa Island and Miyako Island.
This is the first time since April 2020 that the Liaoning has been known to pass this waterway, and it comes just days after exercises between the U.S. and Australian navies in the Eastern Pacific.
 Two formations of missile-carrying bombers and fighters surged into Taiwan s airspace at the weekend. Their target , the USS Theodore Roosevelt and her escort, were captured by satellite as they faced off against the dummy attack run. Just days after President Joe Biden took up office in the White House, Beijing is ramping up the pressure. On Friday, it announced its coast guard and warships were authorised to open fire on intruders within the East and South China Seas. On Saturday, it sent a strike package of powerful bombers within launch range of an approaching US carrier battle group. On Sunday, a flight of strike fighters followed up with another dress rehearsal assault.
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5 Most Powerful Navies
It’s a universal truth handed down since antiquity: a country with a coastline has a navy. Big or small, navies worldwide have the same basic mission to project military might into neighboring waters and beyond.
s has been more or less the same for thousands of years. Navies protect the homeland, keep shipping routes and lines of communication open, show the flag and deter adversaries. In wartime, a navy projects naval power in order to deny the enemy the ability to do the same. This is achieved by attacking enemy naval forces, conducting amphibious landings, and seizing control of strategic bodies of water and landmasses.