{"id":47688,"date":"2026-06-26T03:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47688\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:09:16","slug":"u-s-missile-moves-in-japan-send-china-clear-message-a-new-era-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/47688\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. missile moves in Japan send China clear message: A new era has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S.-Japan alliance is entering a new phase in its effort to deter China, one that increasingly relies on dispersed, land-based missiles positioned along the \u201cfirst island chain\u201d \u2014 the string of islands stretching from Japan through Taiwan and the Philippines toward Borneo.<\/p>\n

The planned longer-term presence of a U.S. Typhon midrange missile system in Japan<\/a>, combined with the fielding of the Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) anti-ship missile and Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS) air-defense systems by Okinawa-based units, is creating a distributed network of strike, air-defense and targeting capabilities that complicates Chinese military operations around Taiwan and across the western Pacific.<\/p>\n

More importantly, these assets are forcing Beijing to contend with many of the same operational dilemmas that China\u2019s anti-access\/area-denial (A2\/AD) strategy \u2014 designed to keep rival militaries at bay \u2014 was originally intended to impose on U.S. and allied forces. In doing so, Tokyo and Washington are beginning to narrow a longstanding asymmetry in land-based conventional missile forces \u2014 one that has gradually favored Beijing since the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S.-Japan alliance is entering a new phase in its effort to deter China, one that increasingly relies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,360,8,6831,23,26242,2303,488,84,673,405],"class_list":["post-47688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-china","tag-defense","tag-japan","tag-missiles","tag-philippines","tag-pla","tag-sdf","tag-taiwan","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-military","tag-u-s-japan-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}