{"id":39599,"date":"2018-10-23T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39599"},"modified":"2018-10-23T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:48:16","slug":"us-withdrawal-from-inf-treaty-implications-for-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39599","title":{"rendered":"US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

One of the motives behind the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty is its desire to acquire\u00a0first-strike capability against Russia<\/a>\u00a0from Europe, while keeping intact its strategic nuclear arsenal. Another motivation is the need to keep China, America\u2019s fiercest geopolitical challenger, in its crosshairs by forcing it to alter its foreign, defense, and trade policies in order to tip the balance in Washington\u2019s favor. The capability to knock out key infrastructure sites with precision intermediate-range strikes deep inside China, not just in the coastal provinces, is one way to make Beijing more tractable on key issues and force a rollback of its global influence. In April, Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of US Pacific Command,\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the Senate Armed Services Committee\u00a0that the US should renegotiate the INF Treaty to better compete with China. The admiral knew what he was talking about.<\/p>\n

China has developed\u00a0the DF-26 \u201caircraft carrier-killer\u201d ballistic missile that has now rendered the old US strategy ineffective. Zachary Keck of the\u00a0National Interest\u00a0believes<\/a>\u00a0the DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile could stop the US Navy in its tracks without firing a shot. That threat has to be countered and one way to do it is by knocking it out with land-based, highly accurate missiles. Such systems are cheaper than aircraft carriers and can do the job without exposing thousands of servicemen to the missile threat if used for a first strike. China\u00a0has been testing<\/a>\u00a0a new nuclear-capable, air-launched ballistic missile constructed on the basis of the DF-21 that will help that country improve its warfighting capabilities. Beijing also boasts land-based mobile missile systems (LBMMS) with DF-10 cruise missiles that have a maximum range of 1,500 to 2,000 km. China has to defend itself, and fielding these systems is the only way that it can counteract America\u2019s huge sea, space, and air advantages.<\/p>\n

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US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific One of the motives behind the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty is its desire to acquire\u00a0first-strike capability against Russia\u00a0from Europe, while keeping intact its strategic nuclear arsenal. Another motivation is the need to keep China, America\u2019s fiercest geopolitical challenger, in its crosshairs by forcing it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19390,3407,130,281,22483,22461,2583,694,8203,827,865],"class_list":["post-39599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arkady-savitsky","tag-asia-pacific","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-inf","tag-intermediate-range-nuclear-forces-treaty","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-russia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39601,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599\/revisions\/39601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}