The outside world did not expect that the Liaoning ship had completed a breakthrough in the second island chain and was "Yulong" in the strategic core area of the United States. Faced with this situation, the United States chose to detain 64 fighter jets on the island. What signal did it send?
Since late May, the trend of the Liaoning aircraft carrier in China has been attracting much attention from the outside world. Because of this long-range voyage, the formation scale of the Liaoning ship created a record of the PLA's Western Pacific exercises. The configuration of 13 destroyers, 2 supply ships and 1-2 escort submarines has become a complete long-range formation. But the international community still did not expect that according to the notice from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, the Liaoning ship not only entered Guam, the core area of the second island chain of the United States, but also carried out an orbital cruise in the area. Faced with this situation, the US military did not take any action, because the total number of combat groups in the Liaoning fleet had exceeded the configuration of the US aircraft carrier fleet, reaching 656. The USS Washington, which originally planned to cruise in the waters near Japan for two months, hurriedly retracted back to Yokosuka port after only 10 days of staying at sea, and did not dare to face the Chinese fleet.
Some people may say that the operation of the Liaoning ship only has symbolic meaning and has no practical significance. After all, when it is really time for war, if the aircraft carrier appears in the waters near the opponent's base, it will only become a "living target". Moreover, the main strikes against Guam are still mainly ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, and the number of carrier-based aircraft strikes on the Liaoning ship is not enough. However, the US military is not afraid to come out, but this symbolic significance of China's aircraft carrier surrounds the "heart" of the important US strategy? When China's third and fourth aircraft carriers are included in the mail and cruises to U.S. military bases such as Guam gradually become "daily", the US military will no longer mention the so-called "China threat theory" because China really has the ability to "overturn" them directly.
It is worth mentioning that the United States showed off its so-called "Guam Defense Plan" as early as 2022, and also clearly stated that "attacking Guam is equivalent to attacking the US mainland, and the US military will respond equally." Moreover, as a country hanging outside the world island, the United States has rarely encountered local attacks. The "9/11 Incident" is the only time since the new century, and the last time is traced back to Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Perhaps it was because the stable life had been too long, and the United States had forgotten a truth, that is, "I can go to the enemy, but I can go to the enemy." He also believed that only his ships could wander around other people's doorsteps, and other countries could not drive warships to their doorsteps. But the situation has changed, and now someone is coming to "knock" the "door" of the United States. Moreover, this is the first time that the United States has faced an aircraft carrier formation that can compete with itself in the Pacific, and even the Soviet Union during the Cold War did not do this.
Faced with this situation, the United States' attitude has undergone major changes. They chose to detain 66 F-16V fighter jets that were prepared to be sold to Taiwan, which is considered to send a slowdown to mainland China. However, whether or not to release these fighter jets has no impact on the situation, because not long ago, the "Ravel", which is known as the strongest four-and-a-half-generation medium-sized fighter jet in the West, was completely crushed by the J-10CE in mainland China. Moreover, the J-10CE is only a foreign trade version. Its most advanced J-10C can only be considered a second-rate fighter in the PLA sequence. The stronger J-16 and J-20 have 8 aviation brigades in the Eastern Theater Command. Such a huge gap in strength is obviously not something that the F-16, a fighter designed in the 1970s, can make up for. In the situation where the ratio of military strength between China and the United States and Asia-Pacific is reversed, the United States' position on the situation in the Taiwan Strait is just to seize the time to make money from Taiwan, and they have no intention of intervening at all.
