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Japan will be in line of fire in a Taiwan crisis under plan to deploy US missiles to south-west islands
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A key policy of the US-Japan joint operations plan is the deployment of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to Japan’s Nansei island chain.
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TOKYO – The pieces of the strategic puzzle of how the US and its security allies, Japan and the Philippines, will respond to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan are falling into place.
Under an operations plan, it will reportedly involve the deployment of sophisticated US missile units to the theatre of war.
