Eyeing China, US to hold missile drill in Japan’s Okinawa: report
The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter an increasingly assertive China.
The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill by Japan´s key ally, the Sankei Shimbun reported, without citing sources.
The drill would involve a mobile rocket launcher seen as a counter-measure to…