{"id":5028,"date":"2021-07-22T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T11:35:43","slug":"pacific-iron-2021-the-us-answer-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=5028","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Iron 2021-The US Answer to China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twenty-five (25) F-22 Raptor aircraft have been deployed to the Guam and Tinian Islands by the USAF, sending a message of strength and deterrence to the United States to China. The reason for the development of the F-22 Raptor is the exercise &#8220;Pacific Iron 2021- A Dynamic force employment operation to project forces&#8221; which is expected to be carried out by the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSwwOemaSDGTJu8i-NiI4Ie3MHSL0kpD_wADw&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"\u03a0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03c6\u03bf\u03c1\u03ad\u03c2 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1 \u03a3\u03c4\u03c1\u03b1\u03c4\u03b9\u03c9\u03c4\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03cd\u03c2-\u039d\u03ad\u03bf \u03b2\u03af\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03bf \u03b4\u03b5\u03af\u03c7\u03bd\u03b5\u03b9 \u03b3\u03b9\u03b1\u03c4\u03af \u03ba\u03ac\u03b8\u03b5 \u03a0\u03bf\u03bb\u03b5\u03bc\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae  \u0391\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u03c6\u03bf\u03b2\u03ac\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c4\u03bf F-22 Raptor\"\/><figcaption><strong>F-22 Raptor <\/strong><br>Photo by the website www.offers4army.com <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 35 aircraft (plus 10 F-15E Strike Eagles) and 800 crew will be involved. The US Marine Corps (USMC) based in Japan will also take part in the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presence of the F-22 Raptor and the &#8220;Pacific Iron 2021&#8221; exercise take place at a time when tensions between the US and China remain high, with a focus on South China Sea issues and China&#8217;s territorial claims to Taiwan, which China considers its breakaway province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presence of the F-22 Raptor will reassure Taiwanese officials, as China recently opted for mass infiltration and violation of Taiwan&#8217;s airspace with 28 fighter jets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five (25) F-22 Raptor aircraft have been deployed to the Guam and Tinian Islands by the USAF, sending a message of strength and deterrence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1808],"tags":[161,2689,2690,2028,215],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-space","tag-china","tag-f-22-raptor","tag-fighter-jets","tag-taiwan","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}