Chinese Carrier and US Strike Group Overlap in Western Pacific Waters
The deployment may overlap with Keen Sword as the carrier group remains in the Philippine Sea for several weeks, Japanese authorities said.
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China’s Aircraft Carrier Liaoning Is Circling the Philippines With 288 Missile Cells of Escort While the USS Theodore Roosevelt Runs Keen Sword in the Philippine Sea Through October 29
China’s carrier Liaoning and three escorts, two Type 055s and a Type 052D carrying 288 vertical launch cells between them, are circling the southern Philippines while the USS Theodore Roosevelt leads Keen Sword, the US-Japan exercise running October 19–29 in the Philippine Sea.
The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning sails the Western Pacific while the USS Theodore Roosevelt participates in multinational maneuvers. Both operations coincide in a strategic region
Amidst large-scale joint military exercises between the United States and Japan in the Western Pacific, China's aircraft carrier group Liaoning is reportedly moving through waters south of the Philippines. If it maintains this route, it raises the possibility of U.S. and Chinese carrier groups operating simultaneously in the Philippine Sea, which could escalate military tensions.
As the United States announced response guidelines to concentrate forces on the first island chain, China's Liaoning carrier group launched a military counterattack by conducting long-range exercises in the Philippine Sea outside the defense line.
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