Russia, China and North Korea in Crosshairs of U.S. Air Power Plan

"In large part this is driven by the need to balance against a strengthened Chinese military, but not only that. Japan faces threats from North Korea and indirectly from Russia, which has been cooperating with Beijing and Pyongyang more closely since the intensification of the war in Ukraine after 2022", Philip Shetler-Jones, Senior Research Fellow for Indo-Pacific Security at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense and security think thank in the U.K., told Newsweek.