{"id":441807,"date":"2025-09-21T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:36:54","slug":"the-us-held-a-major-military-drill-minus-an-aircraft-carrier-what-does-it-mean-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441807\/","title":{"rendered":"The US held a major military drill minus an aircraft carrier. What does it mean for China?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a break from past practice, the United States did not send an aircraft carrier to its military drill with treaty allies Japan<\/a> and South Korea<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Some analysts said this suggested that the US was playing down the exercise to boost its dealings with China and North Korea.<\/p>\n

Others highlighted the Trump administration\u2019s insistence on<\/a> greater contributions from Asian allies in its strategy to contain China within the strategically crucial first island chain<\/a>.The trilateral multi-domain exercise called Freedom Edge<\/a> was held from September 15 to 19 in international waters east and south of South Korea\u2019s southern island of Jeju, according to Seoul.It was the third such drill between the three countries, following previous rounds last year. It also marked the first exercise since US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung<\/a> took office earlier this year.\"USUS President Donald Trump meets South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in the Oval Office on August 25. Photo: EPAEarlier this month, the US Indo-Pacific Command<\/a> said the exercise \u201cdemonstrates the countries\u2019 shared commitment to collectively achieve and maintain peace in the Asia-Pacific\u201d, while addressing \u201cshared threats\u201d inside the first island chain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a break from past practice, the United States did not send an aircraft carrier to its military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[11410,3801,1395,32,149375,149376,2122,149373,55695,55700,6660,149374,525,2943,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-441807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-first-island-chain","13":"tag-freedom-edge","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-jeju","16":"tag-kim","17":"tag-lee-jae-myung","18":"tag-north-korea","19":"tag-park-won-gon","20":"tag-south-korea","21":"tag-taiwan","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115244449792062522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}