Tokyo: England showed off the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the head of the Japanese defense on Monday at a naval base near Tokyo, marking the commencement of a permanent military presence in an area that tried hard with strength.
The Japanese Defense Minister, Nobuo Kishi, and a senior Japanese military commander were shown around the aircraft carrier, walking between the F-35B Stealth Fighters on the deck because Navy Royal officers explained how the jet was launched from the path.
“One of the objectives of this spread is signaling the initial commitment,” Commodore Steve Moorhouse told a briefing on a $ 4.15 billion ship.
“The advantages of this region increase significantly.” Japan, which also plans to fly a short-takeoff and vertical landing F-35BS of two helicopter operators are converted, are working to expand security cooperation outside the US ally to try to help reign in the Chinese influence, including that threatens the region, including independence Taiwan.
Japan, in a recent defense strategy paper, identified Chinese neighbors as the main national security threat and said having a “sense of crisis” about Taiwan as a Chinese military activity around the island increased.
“The visit of the British aircraft carrier strike group has a great significance, to maintain and strengthen Indo-Pacific free and open,” said Kishi told reporters after a visit to Queen Elizabeth.
Joining us and Dutch ships, allies closed US, Japan hosted the biggest concentration of US military forces outside the United States, including the seventh fleet of the US Navy, airplanes, and thousands of Marines.
China, which looked at Taiwan as a separating province, said his intention in the area was peaceful.
Leading two destroyers, two fregats, submarines and two supporters, Queen Elizabeth sailed from England in May and had sailed through waters including the contested South China Sea, where China claimed 90%, before arriving in Japan on Saturday, The port is farthest to the spread of the spring.
It has joined the US destroyer and the frigate of the Dutch Navy, and also brought us F-35B, who flew along the British Jets Stealth.
After the Queen of Elizabeth Carrier Strike Group returned, two warships would continue the presence of Britain in the region, because London was looking for a larger world presence after its departure from the European Union.
While docked in Yokosuka, which is the home of USS Ronald Reagan, the only carrier of the front spread of Washington, Queen Elizabeth will also hold a visit from the executive of a leading Japanese company because of post-Brexit Britain.