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US drills with Australia and Japan in the Pacific will include air-combat exercises designed to improve their ability to use smaller airfields in case major bases are attacked.
US commanders believe there is a growing threat to its military facilities from China s and Russia s missiles and bombers.
The United States is conducting a joint exercise with Australia and Japan on Guam as it seeks to counter its increasing vulnerability to attack from Russia or China.
The joint exercise at the Andersen Air Force Base, known as Cope North 2021, started on Wednesday and will run until February 19 and will see the base hosting F-35A joint strike fighters for the first time.
AustraliaPhilippinesJapanUnited-statesZhongpingJilinChinaKuril-islandsRussia-generalRussiaSingaporeKadena-air-baseThe WHO team met with the laboratory’s senior virology expert,
Shi Zhengli, who has been dubbed the “Bat Woman of Wuhan” for her extensive research on bat coronaviruses similar to the virus that causes COVID-19.
“Extremely important meeting today with staff at WIV including Dr. Shi Zhengli. Frank, open discussion. Key questions asked & answered,” team member
Peter Daszak said in a post on Twitter.
Mr. Daszak is a zoologist and president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York group that in the past has conducted research at the WIV, including with Ms. Shi. He also is a vocal critic of the theory that the virus somehow leaked from the lab to the surrounding population.
New-yorkUnited-statesAustraliaTaiwanJapanXinjiangJiangxiChinaHong-kongDenmarkAlaskaBeijingTo spread out against China s missiles, the US Air Force is sending fighters to remote Pacific airfields insider@insider.com (Christopher Woody) © US Air Force/Capt. Andrew G. Hoskinson A C-130 lands at Northwest Field, next to Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, February 17, 2010. US Air Force/Capt. Andrew G. Hoskinson
Faced with a Chinese military that can reach farther, the US Air Force is looking for ways to spread its forces throughout the region.
The service is practicing a concept known as Agile Combat Employment in order to do that, and it has a challenging test of its ACE capabilities planned for February.
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