But he also made a little-noticed announcement at the start of the trip that points to another priority for the second Trump administration's Indo-Pacific strategy: bolstering the "second island ...

The First Island Chain is formed by three key American allies and partners facing China to the west: Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The second chain stretches from Japan to the island of New ...

with a strategic timeline that dates back to the 1980s that includes goals of exerting control first within the First Island Chain, and then within the Second." The strategic aim of China in the ...

Second, the development of Second Island Chain basing enables improved distributed ... notice as it would require mobilizing across all of China prior to commencing. Arguing that Taiwan and ...

China's air force is capable of denying US superiority in the first island chain, the top US commander in the Pacific said. Adm. Samuel Paparo said that China's fighter fleet, bombers, and ...