{"id":155444,"date":"2026-07-31T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155444"},"modified":"2026-07-31T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T10:00:16","slug":"why-japanese-stealth-fighters-over-australia-signal-a-strategic-pivot-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155444","title":{"rendered":"Why Japanese stealth fighters over Australia signal a strategic pivot against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese F-35A stealth fighters are flying training missions over Australia for the first time in Exercise Pitch Black \u2013 part of a broader defence pivot that experts say could bolster US and allied resilience against Beijing in a Taiwan contingency.<br \/>\nThe multinational exercise, held every two years and featuring around 100 aircraft, runs from July 20 to August 7. It comes just days after Japanese, US and Australian F-35s trained together during the inaugural Southern Cross drills.<br \/>\nSouthern Cross&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3362533\/why-japanese-stealth-fighters-over-australia-signal-strategic-pivot-against-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapanese F-35A stealth fighters are flying training missions over Australia for the first time in Exercise Pitch Black \u2013 part of a broader defence&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}