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Asia a crucial priority for US Navy - Admiral

US: The US Navy will place a top priority on deploying ships in the Asia-Pacific region even as it faces possible budget cuts that could curtail other global missions, the naval chief said Wednesday.

With China’s clout rising and its military reach expanding, President Barack Obama’s deputies and military commanders increasingly portray Asia as a key to American national security.

“Asia will be clearly a priority and we will adjust our operations accordingly,” Admiral Jonathan Greenert, US chief of naval operations, told reporters in a teleconference.

“The Navy now constantly maintains an aircraft carrier — either the USS Kitty Hawk or the USS George Washington — in the Pacific, compared to 10 years ago when a carrier was available only 70 percent of the time, he said.

Apart from Asia, the Navy also needs to ensure a presence around the world but budget pressures will require having to make “trade-offs” when it comes to operations and joint exercises with partners, he said. “If you’re not in some areas of the world at all, then things can fester there and become a bigger problem later,” he said.

“The trade-offs become how we distribute our Navy around the world both from the perspective of security operations and also exercises with allies,” he said. Washington, Thursday, AFP

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