Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, said on Aug. 4 that the buying of U.S. military equipment by allies and partners in the region will improve U.S. interoperability with those nations to deter and counter China under the more than $27 billion planned Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI). "The best way to be interoperable is to operate with U.S. equipment, and that's aside from the fact that it's the finest on the planet," Davidson told the 2021 Aspen…
