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US, Japan & Taiwan to Integrate Real-Time Drone Data Amid ‘China Threat’ Narrative Tensions
US, Japan & Taiwan to Integrate Real-Time Drone Data Amid ‘China Threat’ Narrative Tensions
The US, Japan, and Taiwan are to share real-time data from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to enhance interoperability in the Indo-Pacific region amid an alleged China threat, a US report stated.
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The US, Japan, and Taiwan are planning to begin sharing real-time data from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) as part of a plan to enhance interoperability in the Indo-Pacific region, a US report stated.Washington is purportedly determined to boost military coordination between its allies under the pretext that if China were to attack Taiwan, such a scenario would call for building a “common operational picture” using reconnaissance drones’ capability.Four MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones – a maritime version of the American Reaper UAV – are to be delivered to Taipei by the US defense contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems sometime in 2025, sources were cited as saying. The drones, which can be configured with cross-domain capabilities for a broad range of maritime surveillance operations, are touted as successful in locating, tracking, and targeting enemy ships and radars. The UAVs, once they arrive in Taiwan, would be allowed to integrate into the system deployed by the US military and the Japanese Self-Defense Force in the region. Accordingly, reconnaissance information gathered simultaneously by the drones would be available to all the partners of the system.Taiwan’s military would then be taught how to operate the new drone system, in conjunction with US and Japanese counterparts, added the report.“We will be taking a practical approach towards ensuring that integration is done as quickly as possible,” an insider told the report.Lt Gen Steven Rudder, formerly head of US Marine Corps forces in the Indo-Pacific, clarified:Washington is reportedly embarking upon this scenario despite the obviously provocative nature of the move, bound to inflate tensions with China even further.There has not yet been any comment on the report from the Pentagon, or Taiwan’s presidential office.The United States is officially committed to a “one-China” policy, which concedes that Taiwan is part of China. However, the United States has kept informal relations with Taipei and provides arms to its government, despite the fact that Beijing considers any relations between foreign nations and Taipei to be meddling into China’s domestic affairs.The report comes as NATO allies have been bolstering their presence in the Indo-Pacific region, with the US-led military bloc labeling China a security challenge last year. Japan, the United States, Australia and Canada conducted three-day joint naval exercises in the East China Sea this month, aimed at strengthening interoperability. Peddling the ‘China threat’ narrative, Washington has been resorting to intimidating means, such as sending warships and military aircraft, engaging in close-in reconnaissance and generally flexing its military muscles near China’s territorial sea and airspace. As part of this policy, during the first quarter of 2023, Washington proposed US $9.1 billion for military investments in the Asia-Pacific region within the framework of its Pacific Deterrence Initiative. Besides the US currently being part of several alliances and partnerships across the region, such as AUKUS, which groups it with Australia and the UK, and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) with Australia, India, and Japan, Washington also opened four new military bases in the Philippines. Earlier this year, the US also signed a defense and maritime surveillance pact with Papua New Guinea.In response, China has warned that to push for “such alliances in the region” is “a way of kidnapping regional countries and fuelling confrontation, which will only plunge the Asia-Pacific into a whirlpool of disputes and conflicts.” Chinese minister of national defense, General Li Shangfu, speaking at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue defense summit in Singapore recently, warned of the dangers of a severe conflict erupting between Beijing and Washington. The minister also noted that, “how to solve the Taiwan issue, we, the Chinese, will decide. This issue does not tolerate the intervention of foreign forces.”
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The US has been claiming that China – labeled a security challenge last year by the NATO alliance – is preparing to take control of Taiwan, which Beijing sees as its rogue province, by military force. Washington and its NATO allies have been bolstering their presence in the Indo-Pacific region, and further ratcheting up tensions.
Four MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones – a maritime version of the American Reaper UAV – are to be delivered to Taipei by the US defense contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems sometime in 2025, sources were cited as saying. The drones, which can be configured with cross-domain capabilities for a broad range of maritime surveillance operations, are touted as successful in locating, tracking, and targeting enemy ships and radars. The UAVs, once they arrive in Taiwan, would be allowed to integrate into the system deployed by the US military and the Japanese Self-Defense Force in the region. Accordingly, reconnaissance information gathered simultaneously by the drones would be available to all the partners of the system.
Taiwan’s military would then be taught how to operate the new drone system, in conjunction with US and Japanese counterparts, added the report.
“We will be taking a practical approach towards ensuring that integration is done as quickly as possible,” an insider told the report.
Lt Gen Steven Rudder, formerly head of US Marine Corps forces in the Indo-Pacific, clarified:
“The MQ-9 is a relatively new system to this theatre, and we have tried very hard to begin to develop an M-Q9 web of orbits with our partners out here — much like we have in the Middle East, Africa and other places in Europe,”
Washington is reportedly embarking upon this scenario despite the obviously provocative nature of the move, bound to inflate tensions with China even further.
“The sharing of data between Japan and Taiwan, between Taiwan and the Philippines, between the US and all three of them, is so crucial, but it’s also one of the big taboos because China will see it as escalatory,” a senior US military official was cited as conceding.
There has not yet been any comment on the report from the Pentagon, or Taiwan’s presidential office.
The United States is officially committed to a “one-China” policy, which concedes that Taiwan is part of China. However, the United States has kept informal relations with Taipei and provides arms to its government, despite the fact that Beijing considers any relations between foreign nations and Taipei to be meddling into China’s domestic affairs.
“It is undeniable that a severe conflict or confrontation between China and the US would be an unbearable disaster for the world,” Li stated.
The minister also noted that, “how to solve the Taiwan issue, we, the Chinese, will decide. This issue does not tolerate the intervention of foreign forces.”
