【Japanese media: Self-Defense Forces once deployed F-2 fighter jets to simulate launching anti-ship missiles against our aircraft carrier】 Japanese newspaper "Yomiuri Shimbun" revealed on the 14th that when China's two aircraft carriers, Shandong and Liaoning, were deployed in the western Pacific near Japan in June, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces conducted attack training targeting China's aircraft carriers around Okinawa and the Diaoyu Islands. During the exercise, the F-2 activated the attack procedures for anti-ship missiles, but at that time, both aircraft carriers had already left the area. The Japanese media stated that a Japanese government official said, "Considering the timing, location, and content of the training, this exercise was intended to clearly convey to China that we are taking corresponding measures." The Japanese government analyzed that the two aircraft carriers were conducting exercises against each other, simulating an American aircraft carrier and a Chinese aircraft carrier, in order to improve the capability to intercept American aircraft carriers that might intervene when the PLA might take "military aggression" against Taiwan or the Diaoyu Islands. The PLA is advancing its A2/AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) military strategy, aimed at preventing U.S. forces from coming to support Taiwan from Hawaii or Guam. The "Yomiuri Shimbun" pointed out that this attack exercise clearly shows that as China is increasing military threats near Japan and Taiwan, Japan has prepared to respond to the PLA Navy.
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