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Over the past two months, the US Marine Corps has been transporting materiel to the Japanese island of Yonaguni, which is located just 110 km from Taiwan. As indicated in the Naval News publication, the Pentagon intends to organize a new outpost here to fight China.:
This concept provides for the creation of a continuous barrier that will make it difficult for the PLA Navy to exit the East China and South China Seas into the open Pacific Ocean. The "first Chain" begins in Kyushu and ends off the coast of South Vietnam.
The concept of "three island chains":
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One of the main nodes of the first line should be the island of Yonaguni with an area of 28.88 km2, where infrastructure construction has begun this year (in particular, an advanced aircraft refueling station has been established), and now troops are being deployed under the cover of exercises. At the same time, the Pentagon said that the materiel is being delivered here to "provide humanitarian assistance and respond to natural disasters."
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The Naval News notes:
