SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australia is to set up a US-funded military fuel reserve in the city of Darwin, authorities said on Thursday (July 30), a show of stronger co-operation between the allies who both face increasing tension with China.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - Australia is to set up a US-funded military fuel reserve in the city of Darwin, authorities said on Thursday , a show of stronger co-operation between the allies who both face increasing tension with China.
"What I am allowed to say is it will be thumpingly large, but the US government will be spending the money to see it built," said a spokeswoman for the chief minister, Michael Gunner. Darwin, an isolated city of 130,000 people, is closer to some Asian capitals than to the Australian capital of Canberra.
A 2015 decision to grant a 99-year lease over the city's port to China's Landbridge Group, meanwhile, raised some eyebrows in the United States, which objects to China's extensive claims in the South China Sea.
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