After two days of talks in Australia, the US and Australian governments announced they will form a “Combined Intelligence Center” to give the US more spy capabilities in the region to monitor China.
“The principals agreed to establish Combined Intelligence Center – Australia within Australia’s Defense Intelligence Organization by 2024,” the US and Australia said in a joint statement.
“The Center would further enhance the long-standing intelligence cooperation between the Australian Defence Intelligence Organization and the US Defense Intelligence Agency, focused on analyzing issues of shared strategic concern in the Indo-Pacific,” the statement added.
While the statement did not mention China by name, the US’s military buildup in Australia and elsewhere in the region is being done explicitly to prepare for a future war with China.
According to Australia’s ABC News, officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency and their Australian counterparts have said the center is expected to “focus sharply on China’s military footprint in the region and its moves to cement security ties with countries across Asia and the Pacific.”
The spy center is part of a broader increase in the US’s military footprint in Australia that was announced during Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s visit to Canberra.
The two countries said the US would help Australia begin producing guided missiles and rockets by 2025. “The principals agreed to deepen cooperation on Australia’s Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise by collaborating on a flexible guided weapons production capability in Australia, with an initial focus on the potential for co-production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems by 2025,” the statement said.
The US will also ramp up submarine deployments to Australia and begin regular rotations of US Army watercraft. Australian officials raised the issue of WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange during the meetings, but Blinken rejected Canberra’s concerns. If extradited to the US, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for exposing US war crimes.
A group of Russian and Chinese warships were spotted in the Bering Sea several dozen miles off an Alaskan island (last year)
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-chinese-navy-ships-spotted-less-100-miles-off-us-coast-1746669
right. no wonder US needs spies – in Australia
Australians are nothing more that Americas BITCH , the one thing that makes me laugh is the fact you never hear the Australians brag about the part they played in Vietnam , i wonder why ? , is it because of the war crimes they where involved in ? .
And the very popular R&R in Australia enforced “No Blacks Allowed” with US approval.
https://youtu.be/IER2SGbjCWo?t=20
The US announces their spy centers while China denies they even have them.
It is hard to take either side seriously in regards to their spying activities.
Dude! Let me get this straight. After the Australian government maximized their control, oppression, and censorship over their own citizens, they turned all of it over to the US!? Wait?! Then the Australians agreed to pay the US for nuclear submarines for the US to start its war against China, which is Australia’s biggest economic partner. Wait. It gets even worse!? The Australians gave up everything to the US and the only thing they asked for was Assange. Then the US said, “NO!?” Man! Is that like cutting off someone’s di@k and using it to fu@k them? (Bad Sarcasm)
“Then the US said, “NO!?” Man! Is that like cutting off someone’s di@k and using it to fu@k them?”
Dude, you are on fire. More material worth plagiarizing.
“Sarcasm”?? … God’s honest truth.
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The spy center is part of a broader increase in the US’s military footprint in Australia that was announced during Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s visit to Canberra.
The two countries said the US would help Australia begin producing guided missiles and rockets by 2025. “The principals agreed to deepen cooperation on Australia’s Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise by collaborating on a flexible guided weapons production capability in Australia, with an initial focus on the potential for co-production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems by 2025,” the statement said.
And they couldn’t fucking DEMAND Assange’s release for that?
The spy center in Australia will enable the USA to spy on Australia as well as China. The US spies on its allies as well as its enemies and frenemies. It lets Israel spy on anyone including the USA.
I don’t know how much Australia spends on its military but it is very little. Australia should not participate in the USA’s military misadventures and should break colonial ties with the UK.
Sounds like a great plan. When China and NK nuke all that sh#t; the fallout will stay in the southern hemisphere.