This Chinese strategic naval policy is described as its “Island Chain Strategy:. China intends to break through the three island chains in order to expand eastward into the Pacific.
- The Island Chain Strategy phrase was first used by John Foster Dulles in 1951 during the Korean War.
- There are three island chains that China feels it needs to breach to allow its military free access to the Western and Eastern Pacific regions.
- The first island chain consists of the Kuril Islands, the Japanese Archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, the northern part of the Philippines Archipelagos, and the Malay Peninsula.
- The countries that are involved within the first island chain are Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam.
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