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Trump pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia to send to Mideast, and China ‘is quite happy with U.S. distraction’ as Beijing
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President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.
Key facts
- The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard
- Michael Swaine, a senior research fellow in the Quincy Institute’s East Asia Program, questions the future need for aircraft carriers as warfare rapidly changes
- The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic
- China carried out military drills this month near the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea
Summary
The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. The lack of a U.S. carrier in the Pacific may be short-lived if the Navy deploys another in the next couple of months. “The administration says that the Pacific is supposed to be the most important behind the Western Hemisphere,” said Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. American allies in the Pacific are unsettled over the unpredictability of the Republican administration, Poling said, while Beijing “is happy with U.S. distraction, with the frustration of U.S. allies and partners.”