Having previously deployed the medium-range Typhon missile systems \u2013 a weapon banned under the now-obsolete INF Treaty \u2013 in the Philippines, the United States now moves to station them in Japan in relatively close proximity to China and North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington\u2019s plans to deploy these weapons in Asia are \u201cpart of a much wider long-running US strategy to encircle and contain China,\u201d with this move itself being \u201cpart of a global post-Cold War strategy to eliminate any peer or near-peer competitor and maintain US primacy over the planet,\u201d geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic tells Sputnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US plans to deploy Typhon missile systems in Europe are also \u201cpart of a wider strategy to encircle and contain Russia,\u201d Berletic adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, the deployment of these weapons \u201creveals several important factors regarding US foreign, policy including continuity of agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For one, Berletic notes, the US pulled out from the INF Treaty during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, but the deployment of the Typhon missiles in various corners of the globe takes place with Joe Biden at the helm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe process of withdrawing from a treaty, developing, and then deploying such systems took place over the course of two presidential administrations, serving one single agenda, regardless of who sat in the White House,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Typhon\u2019s deployment also reveals the true nature of US foreign policy and its disruptive nature for supposed US \u2018allies\u2019,\u201d Berletic remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though both the Philippines and Japan \u201ccount China as their largest trade partner,\u201d they both end up hosting US missiles aimed squarely at Beijing, which does little to improve their relations. \u201cThis is just the latest in a long line of provocations complicating what would otherwise be increasingly constructive relations with China,\u201d Berletic explains, arguing that the Philippines and Japan\u2019s willingness to enable such US provocations \u201creveals the absence of agency in terms of either nations\u2019 foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is very clear that this policy of hosting US forces seeking to encircle and contain China is a policy determined in Washington, not Manila or Tokyo, and is a policy serving US interests at the expense of the Philippines and Japan,\u201d he states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Berletic also deemed ironic the fact that the United States claims that its deployment of weapon systems around the world \u201cis necessary to ensure global peace and stability,\u201d even as the US \u201cconsistently demonstrates that it itself is the greatest threat to both.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having previously deployed the medium-range Typhon missile systems \u2013 a weapon banned under the now-obsolete INF Treaty \u2013 in the Philippines, the United States now moves to station them in Japan in relatively close proximity to China and North Korea. Washington\u2019s plans to deploy these weapons in Asia are \u201cpart of a much wider long-running …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-telegraph-news"],"yoast_head":"\n