The United States wants the British army to focus more on Europe and away from Asia

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The Pentagon of the British army wants to focus more on Europe and less on Asia, in a major political transformation from the Biden administration, which prompted European allies to enhance the activity in the Indian Pacific to send a strong signal to China.

Elbridge ColbyThe Trump administration told the US Defense Department with the US Department of Policy, believes that the British army should increase its focus on the European Atlantic region, according to five people who are familiar with this issue.

Kulby, the third largest senior official in the Pentagon, also expressed concern about the London sending HMS Prince of Wales about publishing that will include time in India and the Pacific.

He has long argued that European countries should bear more responsibility for security in their region – especially with regard to the war in Ukraine – to liberate American army To focus more on China, India and the Pacific.

The batch represents a 180 -degree axis of the Biden administration, which has argued that the strengthening European military presence in Asia would do Helps in facing the aggressive Chinese military activity In the region, it can help President Xi Jinping determine a decision to attack Taiwan.

In recent years, European countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the Netherlands have sailed warships across the South China Sea due to Beijing’s objections. In 2021, the Pentagon welcomed the “historic” deployment of Queen Elizabeth’s aircraft bearing in the UK to the Indian Pacific Ocean.

In pushing Europe to do more in the Pacific Ocean, Court Campbell, the White House India and the Pacific Caesar argued in the first half of the Biden administration, that the Atlantic and Pacific theaters were linked.

“This decision indicates that the Trump administration will try to determine the two, which may leave allies in both regions more concerned about the prospects for the continued American regional participation,” said Zach Cooper, a security expert in Asia at the American Institute of American Institutions.

The new policy is at a time when Beijing climbed an attack on Sahar with Europe in an attempt to reflect the previous efforts in the United States to recruit European countries to confront China.

One person who is familiar with the case said UK If it was “always active around the world, including work closely with the United States according to the European Atlantic priorities,” but “it will take care of its own interests as well as partnerships all over the world, whether in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian and the Pacific.”

While American military officers generally appreciate more European military presence in the Pacific Ocean, the Pentagon Civil Administration team wants to focus more on their original areas.

This week, Colby said it was the “key” of Europe to increase defense spending to 5 percent of GDP. As part of his payment to countries to increase investment in defense, he recently told that Congress in Japan should spend more than its planned goal by 2 percent and said that Taiwan should spend 10 percent.

“The European military power remains limited if it is not, so it is natural that the Trump administration wants to see it focuses on the Indian -European subcontinent and the threat of Russia (instead) from spreading in Asia or anywhere else,” said Eric Cires, a security expert in Asia in global strategies. “The spread of marine diplomacy at the time of peace to other regions is a luxury that I do not think that Europe can bear these days.”

However, critics say that the increasing cooperation between Iran, Russia, North Korea and China means that the United States must seek help from allies outside their regions.

“European theaters, the Middle East, India, and the Pacific have always been deeply interconnected,” said one of the officials in charge of an Indian country and the Pacific Ocean. “But today’s security is more retail than ever-not the least due to the return of a strong global axis of authoritarian review forces.”

The British Ministry of Defense said it “is working closely with our allies in the United States, India and the Pacific, to spread the transmission group with HMS PRINCE of Wales due to exercises later this year.”

The Pentagon refused to comment.