Acting U.S. ambassador to Australia, Mike Goldman, has told News Corp’s The Australian that the United States wants to put military weapons in the north of Australia to project force amid Beijing’s growing strategic threats. Goldman said given U.S. bases, like in Guam, were within reach of Chinese missiles, it “just makes sense” to forward deploy U.S. war stock in Australia, and that it offered strategic advantages. He’d also like to see Australia make precision-guided weapons onshore as part of a more “innovative defence partnership” between Australia and the United States. “A lot of that just makes perfect intuitive sense, particularly when we talk about how we are going to project force in any sort of contingency,” he said in an interview that ranged from tensions with China over Taiwan to carbon emissions. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison considers it a priority of the government to create a sovereign guided weapons …
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