He follows that up with the argument that U.S. actions in the Second Island Chain are essentially a tacit acknowledgement of Chinese control of the Taiwan Strait. While the challenges he ...

In a sign of increasing confidence in the PLAN’s ability to operate beyond the second island chain, a PLAN Task Group completed a circumnavigation of Australia during February and March.

particularly in the first island chain, but in the second island chain as well,” he said. The first island chain, which includes the Japanese archipelago, Taiwan and the northern Philippines ...

In the western Pacific Ocean just east of the island of Guam and a strategic gateway to the second island chain, lies the deepest point on Earth – the Mariana Trench. In the crushing darkness of ...

Vlieland is the second of the Wadden Sea island chain, located between Texel and Terschelling, and much less densely populated than either with a population of just 1,100. The island is popular with ...

For example, cutting cables near strategic chokepoints such as Guam, which is a linchpin of the US military’s second island chain, a defence strategy used to contain China, the tool could ...

Will he say that Guam and the Micronesian region are the second island chain defense line? Then he will have to explain how the Philippines and most of Japan, including Okinawa, fit into that.

These U.S. territories are referred to in both U.S. and Chinese texts as the “second island chain” (the first being Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines). They are the first line of defense for the ...

Cutting cables near strategic chokepoints such as Guam, which is a linchpin of the US military's Second Island Chain, a defense strategy used to contain China, the tool could essentially ...