{"id":578796,"date":"2021-07-01T13:05:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578796"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:05:52","slug":"us-and-japan-conduct-war-games-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-japan-conduct-war-games-to-counter-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Japan Conduct War Games To Counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-and-japan-conduct-war-games-to-counter-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578796&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.586206896552\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Sensitive exercises simulate attacks from Chinese military<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-76096970-736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2071.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/rsz_gettyimages-76096970-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/rsz_gettyimages-76096970-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA U.S. Navy exercise \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 July 1, 2021 1:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"65.300051733057\">\n<p>The United States and Japan are conducting war games in response to the Chinese military&#8217;s increasingly aggressive and dangerous behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/54b0db59-a403-493e-b715-7b63c9c39093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Wednesday that the Biden administration and top advisers to Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga are engaging in sensitive planning exercises to counter a potential invasion of Taiwan and other aggression in the South China Sea. The cooperation comes as the Chinese military launches an unprecedented buildup of aircraft carriers, advanced missile systems, and other lethal technologies. China has also put its military might to the test, flying record numbers of aircraft into Taiwanese airspace in June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In many ways, the People&#8217;s Liberation Army drove the U.S. and Japan together and toward new thinking on Taiwan,&#8221;&nbsp;said Randall Schriver, former president Trump&#8217;s Pentagon chief for Indo-Pacific affairs. &#8220;Assertiveness around the Senkaku and Taiwan at the same time drives home the issue of proximity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Top military officers have sounded the alarm on China&#8217;s growing ability to attack Taiwan. Retired admiral Phil Davidson, who oversaw the United States Indo-Pacific Command, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2021\/03\/09\/davidson-china-could-try-to-take-control-of-taiwan-in-next-six-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> lawmakers in March that China may be able to attack the island country in four to six years. During Thursday festivities for the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/chinas-xi-pledges-reunification-with-taiwan-partys-birthday-2021-07-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledged<\/a> to work toward the &#8220;reunification&#8221; of China and Taiwan, saying he would &#8220;smash&#8221; any attempts at resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Ironclad support for Taiwan, however, is not universal among American lawmakers. A bill by House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/dems-turn-major-china-bill-into-green-slush-fund\/\">slashed<\/a>&nbsp;diplomatic and military support for the country proposed by Republicans. And Republican hawks have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-defense-budget-gives-china-upper-hand-republican-hawks-say\/\">told<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that the Biden administration&#8217;s 2022 defense budget request <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-shortchanges-defense-program\/\">underfunds<\/a> Navy and Pacific defense programs needed to confront China&#8217;s rise.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Sensitive exercises simulate attacks from Chinese military  A U.S. Navy exercise \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 July 1, 2021 1:00 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2313849,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-76096970-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"US and Japan Conduct War Games To Counter China","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/rsz_gettyimages-76096970-736x514-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"US and Japan Conduct War Games To Counter China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}