{"id":579419,"date":"2021-07-01T22:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579419"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T02:35:57","slug":"u-s-japan-begin-joint-military-drills-off-senkaku-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-japan-begin-joint-military-drills-off-senkaku-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Japan begin joint military drills off Senkaku Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fu-s-japan-begin-joint-military-drills-off-senkaku-islands%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=579419&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 id=\"attachment_2443674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2443674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Marines watch the U.S. Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship \u2018USS Wasp\u2019 with F-35 lightning fighter jets on the deck during the amphibious landing exercises as part of the annual joint U.S.-Philippines military exercise. (TED ALJIBE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 7:33 PM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 1, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The U.S. and Japan have begun joint military exercises amid growing Chinese threats to Taiwan. According to Financial Times, citing Japanese military officials, the joint drills come as preparation for a possible military conflict with China.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise is taking place near the uninhabited Senkaku Islands, just 200 miles off the Chinese coast. This comes after Japanese parliament was allowed to use the nation\u2019s defense force in overseas operations for the first time since World War II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2443677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2443677\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2443677 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan-767x437-1.jpeg\" alt=\"FILE - In this April 12, 2018, file photo released by China&#039;s Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, China is keeping up with military exercises around Taiwan at the northern edge of the South China Sea. (Li Gang\/Xinhua via AP, File)\" width=\"767\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan-767x437-1.jpeg 767w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan-368x210.jpeg 368w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan-768x438.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan-120x67.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/taiwan.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2443677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this April 12, 2018, file photo released by China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea. Despite the COVID-19 outbreak, China is keeping up with military exercises around Taiwan at the northern edge of the South China Sea. (Li Gang\/Xinhua via AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Japan\u2019s defense minister said Chinese threats require a new military strategy. Additionally, Japanese officials say military cooperation with the U.S. is crucial in order to contain the malicious influence by Communist China in Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/rescue-efforts-resume-in-surfside-condo-collapse\/\">Rescue Efforts Resume In Surfside Condo Collapse<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Marines watch the U.S. Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship \u2018USS Wasp\u2019 with F-35 lightning fighter jets on the deck during the amphibious landing exercises as part of the annual &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2313892,"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\/taiwan-767x437-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"U.S., Japan begin joint military drills off Senkaku Islands","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579419","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\/taiwan-767x437-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"U.S., Japan begin joint military drills off Senkaku Islands","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579419","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=579419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}