Ross Babbage, a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based think tank that focuses on the military, said the move may be “military signalling” from the U.S. “At the peak of the standoff, psychological warfare is very important,” he said. Was it all a misunderstanding, or deliberate obfuscation?Ĭai Jian, an expert from the Center for Korean Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, said the whole episode was part of an elaborate game of “psychological warfare or bluffing” by the United States, arguing that Washington never really intended to launch a military strike on North Korea right now. aircraft carriers that South Korea is desperately waiting for has come!” “Tricked badly!” the Global Times exulted on its social media account. The news that the ships weren’t where everyone assumed them to be was greeted with some glee in the Chinese media Tuesday. Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned “storm clouds” were gathering and the risk of conflict rising. military strike on North Korea, had weighed heavily on Chinese minds and in the media here. carrier strike group, and the threat of a U.S. Clayton Doss said only that the USS Carl Vinson and its escorts were “transiting the Western Pacific,” declining to give a more precise location except to rule out the waters around South Korea or Japan. Neither Pacific Command nor the Pacific Fleet responded immediately to requests for comment. Instead of steaming towards the Korea peninsula, the carrier strike group was actually headed in the opposite direction to take part in “scheduled exercises with Australian forces in the Indian Ocean,” according to Defense News, which broke the story. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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