© Reuters/ImageSat International N.V. 2016Woody Island, a island in the South China Sea occupied by China and claimed by several other countries, is shown in satellite images taken on February 14, 2016 and February 3, 2016.
Of late, the Western Pacific has seen both the US and Australia boost their military presence in a bid to prevent China from gaining greater influence in the South China Sea, a strategic, extraordinarily rich in natural resources passageway that has had local territory claimants face off.
Australia is planning to construct a new deep-water port in its north that would be able to accommodate US marines in a bid to help address China's ambitions in the region, ABC
reported Monday citing a number of defence and government officials as saying.
According to the sources, the facility would lie roughly 40 kilometres from Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, which controversially leased its own port to a Chinese operator four years ago. Apart from being a base for military activities, the new Glyde Point would also host joint commercial and industrial operations.
The announcement of the creation of a new port may arrive in the coming weeks and potentially coincides with the bi-annual Talisman Sabre US-Australian military exercise, expected to be in full swing by mid-July, ABC wrote.
Meanwhile, the well-known port of Darwin, though it already
houses military facilities and receives visiting US ships, will reportedly soon offer large amphibious warships a more discreet space to be based at and operate from.
The US and Australia are known to have been stepping up their military presence across the Western Pacific while being on alert over China's moves to gain influence in the region, by among other things creating armed outposts on contested islands in the South China Sea. One of the latest developments along these lines is the joint plan to build a military base on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, which is northeast of Australia.
Most recently, the US flexed its muscles in the South China Sea in a
joint drill with Japan, involving the USS
Ronald Reagan, a nuclear aircraft carrier, as well as the JS
Izumo, a Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force helicopter carrier.
China exerts control over the vast majority of islands, reefs and shoals in the sea, and has been, along with other competing countries in Southeast Asia, expressing concerns over the deployment of US vessels in the area, and blasting Washington for
violating its sovereignty.
In early May, China expressed its "strong opposition" to two US warships sailing in close proximity to the disputed islands in the South China Sea in a move that the US claimed was aimed at challenging "excessive maritime claims". A similar incident had happened twice before that, with Washington
countering China's claims in the region amid escalating tensions between the two top economies in a fierce trade war that has been waged over this past year.
The
South China Sea is a major strategic passageway,
with over $5 trillion worth of maritime cargo passing through the area annually, while it also possesses overwhelming reserves of untapped oil and natural gas, thereby drawing the attention of other competing claimants like Brunei, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The Australian election was corruptly engineered by the CIA for the benefit of the Australian Liberal Party, consider:
(A) A millionaire of dubious character, and intention, decided to spend eighty million dollars, to get himself elected, knowing that he had no chance. His advertising simply invented Labour Party Policies which were not true, and he spent millions broadcasting and repeating them. His Party, Australia United, offered no policies, just motherhood statements like, "Make Australia Great", and others that denigrated the Australian Labour Party leader, Bill Shorten. The millionaire, Mr Palmer, is openly boasting that the Liberal Party "owes him big time". Among'st other things, Mr Palmer wants a license to mine coal; something he knew would not be forthcoming from the Labour Party. Eighty million dollars to get such a license would be a good investment. His failed nickel mine still owes it's workers some seventy million dollars; there are indications that a Liberal Government would meet this debt from tax payer funds. There's more, but this sets the scene for objective thought and consideration.
(B) Whispers emerging from unhappy election scrutineers and vote counting staff, are suggesting, that the claimed four and one half million pre-poll votes is an "invention", designed to delay the final count, in order to facilitate the "planting" of prepared Liberal Party votes, to boost their numbers in electorates not favoring the Liberal Party. This is easily done because the Australian ballot forms themselves do not carry any means of voter identity or point of origin. As the official counts proceed this allows for the introduction of regulated numbers of fraudulent votes sufficient to provide the desired election outcome. Which also permits the counts to show and engineer universal Nation wide swings against the losing Party. This helps to explain the four and one half million pre-poll vote requirement; the crooks engineering this election fraud, simply did not know how many "fraud" votes would be required to satisfy the blissfully unaware vote counters.
(C) For three years, all Australian Pollsters had been reporting Australian voter intentions to vote for the Labour Party, there was never the slightest indication this would change; then, on election day, large numbers of electors, simultaneously, changed their minds,and voted Liberal instead. If true, a very, very unusual coincidence. And, if true, some four million voters, who voted several weeks early, in the pre-polls, also anticipated this change of intentions. Yet none of the National Pollsters picked that up, and they should have done so considering it's marked importance, and, if you believe the lies, the fact it was universal, Nation-wide, in lock-step across all electorates?.
(D) The CIA used this election engineering template twice in the UK and once in New Zealand. They try to split the "target" Party, and when that fails they introduce a new Party; in the UK this was the Democratic Labour Party( the leaders of which now all sit in the House of Lords), in New Zealand this was the New Zealand First Party.
Connivance for these Election frauds make it impossible for the perpetrators to be made to face justice. Lies and fraud must never go unchallenged.