According to Asia Times on November 15, Japan has publicly unveiled a prototype of a modular long-range anti-ship missile, aiming to strengthen the defense of Japan's outlying islands and possibly turn the Miyako Strait into a deadly禁区.

In short, Japan is eyeing the Chinese Navy. For China, the Miyako Strait is not just a regular waterway but a key passage for aircraft carrier groups, nuclear submarines, and distant fleets to enter the Pacific Ocean.

Japan now placing missiles here is setting up obstacles for China, reaching out to block China's navy, and openly creating confrontation.

It is essential for China to be prepared, but more importantly, it must make Japan understand that such a blockading provocation will not go without consequences. China will never accept others defining maritime禁区 for itself, nor will it allow any country to treat the Miyako Strait as a toy, arbitrarily blocking and threatening China's strategic interests.

Japanese Anti-Ship Missile

It should be noted that Japan's latest round of missile expansion is not a single action, but a systematic layout to contain China.

From the remote transformation of the 12th anti-ship missile, to the land-based Tomahawk system deployed jointly with the U.S. military, to this newly introduced modular long-range anti-ship missile, Japan is gradually arming the Ryukyu chain into a maritime denial belt.

The Miyako Strait is 250 kilometers wide, and it is a natural choice for China's aircraft carrier groups to conduct long-range training and strategic oceanic voyages. Japan's missiles are precisely positioned here, clearly indicating a strategic provocation.

Japan wants to change the geopolitical reality with missiles, but it completely forgot that China's navy has long since evolved into a modernized navy, equipped with aircraft carrier battle groups, large destroyers, attack nuclear submarines, hypersonic weapons, and a long-range support system.

Such missile deployments by Japan can neither deter China, but instead will lead China to more systematically enhance its means of breaking through the first island chain.

Chinese Aircraft Carrier

The Miyako Strait is a right and space that China, as a maritime power, should have. Japan placing missiles at this lifeline is equivalent to treating China's strategic security as something that can be trampled upon at will.

Japan clearly knows that if the Miyako Strait is blocked, the first place to ignite will not be anywhere else, but right here.

After Takayuki Kurita took office, the ideological-colored tough stance against China became a political trend in Japanese politics. This combination of political fanaticism and military adventure has already escalated the regional security environment.

Therefore, Japan's current actions are no longer just an unfriendly act, but a clear self-inflicted attack.

Japan believes that by placing missiles on the island chain, it can intimidate China, and by blocking the Miyako Strait, it can keep China's aircraft carriers trapped within the first island chain forever.

Japan's miscalculations are accumulating: it mistakenly believes that China will remain restrained as in some past periods, and even more so, it mistakenly believes that Japan can shoulder the burden of blocking China's rise.

But Japan has forgotten that in the Western Pacific, China possesses overwhelming maritime and air power and strong strategic will. Such provocations will only bring it closer to danger and disaster.

Japanese and Chinese National Flags

Japan must be clear: China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, China's strategic security, cannot be approved by Japan.

Japan can choose sides, it can align with the United States, but it has no right, nor the strength, to interfere in China's internal affairs, and draw red lines in the Miyako Strait.

If Japan continues to play with fire, it will eventually face a reality: it is not China that will take action against Japan, but Japan that is forcing China to respond.

China will not actively provoke, but it will not fear conflict. It will not be the first to open fire, but it will not allow others to keep pointing their weapons at itself.

If Japan insists on taking a gamble, it will surely suffer a severe blow.

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