US military is building infrastructure in northern Australia – wary of a China crisis

Info via Reuters:

• As northern Australia re-emerges as a strategically vital Indo-Pacific location amid rising tensions with China, the United States has quietly begun constructing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of facilities there to support B-52 bombers, F-22 stealth fighters, and refuelling and transport aircraft
• part of a larger effort to distribute U.S. forces around the region and make them less vulnerable.

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Darwin is north of Tindall base. Both mentioned in the article.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.