‘October 20, 2015 1:00 pm JST
US Third Fleet
115 naval vessels ready to help in west Pacific
KEN
MORIYASU, Nikkei staff writer
TOKYO
-- Vice Adm. Nora Tyson, the first female fleet commander in the history of the
U.S. Navy, is responsible for the 115 vessels and 60,000 sailors that make up
the powerful Third Fleet. Although the fleet's area of responsibility lies in
the eastern Pacific -- an area extending from the international date line near
Hawaii to the U.S. West Coast -- Tyson said she is ready to deploy her ships to
the tension-prone western Pacific to assist the Seventh Fleet, based in Yokosuka,
Japan.’
The key
question is whether the Americans would be crazy enough to be nudged into a war
with China over Chinese islands 10 thousands miles from their occupied Indian
territories. By the look of things, the Americans may be tempted to be trigger
happy with their overwhelming naval forces and fire power.
China should
send a message to Obama that all the DF21s and DF26s anti ship and anti
aircraft carrier missiles are on alert and will welcome the American warships
with open arms. This would be a polite way to tell the Americans that China has
a very cheap way to play with their warships, sailors and airmen. The batteries
of China’s anti ship missiles are dotting the coast of China and would be sent to
shower the American warships with Christmas lightings by the push of a few buttons.
Quite easily and cheaply done.
The
Americans may want to test the effectiveness and destructive nature of these
anti ship missiles to prove they are right, that they are superior in the high
seas with two aircraft carrier fleets at their disposal. The ball is in the
American court and the Japanese would be the happy bystander, killing two birds
with one stone.
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