China and Russia need to conduct more wargames and live firing exercises, not just in the western Pacific Ocean. In the name of freedom of navigation, they should conduct wargames and military exercises in the eastern Pacific Ocean, in the Caribbean, in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and the seas around Australia.
There are many advantages for conducting wargames and live firing exercises. The current live firing exercise in the East China Sea is a good example. Closed down the airspace and the surrounding sea, to take control of the space, to stop or limit access to the exercise area. The sea around Taiwan, the sea around Japan and Guam, Hawaii are good areas for wargames and exercises especially live exercises.
The aggressive and provocative Japanese have sent their ageing F15s to intrude into the airspace around Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning. This is highly provocative. No hostile warplane or warship is allowed to get too close to aircraft carriers as they could turn hostile and strike the carrier. For self protection and defence, such intruders would be intercepted and forced to stay far away. The interception by J15 fighters and radar locked on were necessary to tell the intruding F15 to get lost or be shot down. This is an act of self defence. But the provocative and arrogant Japanese are lying that it was China that is being aggressive and unprofessional, just like the out of the blue threat by Taka itchy to threaten to attack China by military force. And the western media and American crony media are echoing the same narrative that it was China's fault, China was the aggressor, not the timid, polite and bowing Japanese savages.
Why wargames and live firing exercises are important to China? The hostile and aggressive Americans, including the Japanese and Mickey Mouse Australia and some little western countries would like to interrupt the exercise, fly or sail their warplanes and warships near or into the exercise areas. This would give China a chance to do a Belgrade Embassy Incident, shoot them down, sink them, and plead ignorance, equipment failure, using old map, soldiers misfired, missile went astray, communication failure or software malfunction, whatever. It is time that China returns the favour and the Americans and these hostile Mickey Mouse are itching for it. Just shoot them down and talk later. Let the provocative forces know that they should not be mucking around with the PLA. They need to be taught a painful lesson, to have a taste of their own medicine.
Yes, more wargames around Japan, around Taiwan, close down the sea lanes and airspace for weeks, for months, interrupt free movements of aircraft and ships, commercial or military. There are great advantages in conducting wargames and live firing exercises, another form of A2AD in practice.
Japan is trying to provoke a war with China now. They know the American position, that China would be too strong in a few years' time. If the Americans are to fight China, it will be now. The Japanese know they cannot miss this chance to drag the Americans to fight the Chinese and die for them. They are escalating tension with China. They also know that in Washington there are many clowns and shallow thinking Warhawks that could be easily swayed to go to war with China. Then Japan could step aside, put on a show and let the Americans and Chinese destroy each other, killing two birds with one stone.
A war is likely to happen in East Asia very soon. The Japanese want it, the Chinese want it, the Russians and the Koreans also want it. Only the Americans did not want it. Yes, when war starts, America will be the bystander and let the Japanese fight the Chinese, Russians and the Koreans. The Americans are not stupid to be dragged into a war by the Japanese, to die for the Japanese.
