The Global Times comprehensively reported that a Russian strategic bomber that might carry a nuclear warhead exploded. Last week, a rare flight around the Guam base in the United States made the competition in the Pacific more subtle and exciting.
Former Russian Air Force General Lin Ze once said, "It is better to wave your wings once than to wave your fist a hundred times." The reaction of American media proves that this sentence is still convincing.
Since the Russian bomber flew to Guam just a few hours before Obama delivered his State of the Union address, some American media and hawks thought it was a show of muscle and a "tease" of Obama.
A more general interpretation is that Russia may be aiming at Obama's strategy of "returning to the Asia-Pacific", because Guam is the most important support point of this strategy. According to American media, this may imply that Russia supports China on the Diaoyu Islands issue between China and Japan.
Since Russia resumed its long-range strategic bomber cruise in 2007, it has made moves that surprised the West from time to time, but this time it was the highest tone after Obama's re-election.
In the past four years, the "restart of the United States and Russia" shouted by the Obama administration has long been ironic. From the deployment of anti-missile system by the United States in Eastern Europe to Russian legislation prohibiting Americans from adopting Russian orphans, the relationship between the two countries is even considered to have fallen to the lowest point in a decade.