The U.S. aims to use the First Island Chain—comprising Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines—to restrict China's naval access to ...

In doing so, it will reinforce Japan’s role in the “first island chain”, which stretches from Okinawa through to Taiwan and the Philippines. The chain is part of a US containment strategy to ...

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 ...