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America remains Asia’s military-exercise partner of choice

Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) military exercises at about 100 miles south of Oahu, Hawaii

2024-08-01  554  中等

Beyond the martial pomp, exercises like RIMPAC serve as a way to cement and bolster relations. And when it comes to wooing regional states, America continues to thump China as the exercise partner of choice in the region. A survey of military exercises held in Asia between 2003 and 2022 published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a think-tank in London, shows that America took part in 1,113 exercises with regional countries. China mustered a paltry 130 drills over the same period (see chart 1).

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