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Darwin, Spasi-id.com - North Atlantic (NATO) is bluffing China by mobilizing the military in the AsiaPacific area for fear of the power and influence of the Bamboo Curtain Country in the region.
The German Air Force sent 13 military planes into the region for the first time. It's a series of joint military exercises called Pitch Black in Australia.
"We wanted to show that we could be in Asia in a day," said the head of German Air Force staff Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, quoted South China Morning Post, Sunday (28 / 8).
German military planes will also fly in training together in Singapore. Then in fewer numbers, it will visit South Korea and Japan.
Meanwhile, France is also involved in a joint exercise in Kangaroo Country. This mission is called designed to show off the power of long-range air.
The French ambassador for India, Emmanuel Lenain, says the mission shows that Paris and Europe have not reduced commitment to the Pacific-Indo despite the security situation of the Blue continent erratic.
France also sent a plane to New Caledonia, and made a stop in India. Furthermore, Lenain explained France is the power of the Indo-Pacific.
'And projections of this ambitious long-distance air power show our commitment to our region and our partners, 'he said.
In response to this cultivation, a number of observers are assessing NATO is concerned with Chinese movements in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Chinese Contemporary International Institute of Relations, Sun Emergence, says the Germans have made changes in their security policy after the Russian invasion into Ukraine.
He said the cultivation was done with the background of NATO that claimed that China was a systemic challenge.
"Indo-Pacific is the U.S. focus and it shows Germany coordinating with the U.S., which is a Chinese rival," said Sun.
He also said that the rationing of German planes was unnecessary because, "There is no territory in the Pacific.
"Under normal circumstances, there's no need to be at all involved in this step, and the Germans have a lot of trade here," said Sun again.
