france's new commander in the pacific toward hawaii is relations between china and europe
soured the french military will come to oahu for training as the united states and france change
their strategy in the pacific amid tensions with china u s pacific air forces spokeswoman first
lieutenant amber kelly herrod said french pilots will arrive on june 29 for several days
of training french forces will be flying a variety of warplanes including rifali's fighter jets a400m
atlas transport planes and a330 refueling planes according to a tweet from france pacific command
this year's the 2021 iteration of congress's annual defence spending bill
called for the creation a new multinational movement coordination center pacific that
would coordinate the movement of friendly nations military aircraft and vessels across the region
heightened tensions with china have increased the training and operations tempo for many
military aviation units across the pacific the u.s air force recently began spreading
its planes around the region to make them harder targets for chinese missiles
the chinese military has increasingly asserted control over the south china sea in the western
pacific leading to increasing confrontations with vietnam the philippines and other countries
that also border the sea at the same time us warships and planes frequently move through
in what the pentagon calls freedom of navigation operations with one-third of all global trade
traveling through the south china sea rising hostilities have attracted global concern france's
interests in the pacific run deep the frigates visit at this time is meant to deliver a message
in support of freedom of navigation in the air and at sea which is shared by both vietnam and france
french ambassador to vietnam nicholas warnery told vietnamese newspaper vn express international
french forces joined the american and japanese militaries in a joint exercise in japan it was the
first time french troops trained in japan japanese defense minister nobuo kishi told reporters that
france is a like-minded country that shares with japan the vision of a free and open indo-pacific
french military officials didn't respond to requests for comment about training in hawaii
but posts on france pacific command's official twitter account show that ray
met with officials at camp smith joint base pearl harbor-hickam and the daniel k
in ea asia pacific center for security studies in waikiki during his visit
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