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November 17th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The expanded engagement in Asia comes amid growing concerns among America’s
regional allies that its leadership role in the region may be fading – just
as China has begun to enhance its military and assert claims to territories
in the East and South China Seas.
Mr Obama and Julia Gillard this week unveiled a new military agreement which
includes plans to deploy up to 2500 US Marines in Darwin – a move that
marked America’s most extensive reach into the region since the Vietnam War.
The plans drew a frosty response from Beijing and raised concerns that it
would unnecessarily stoke tensions with China.
A former senior Australian defence official, Professor Hugh White, from the
Australian National University, said the deployment to Darwin was “not
a wise move” and could heighten distrust between the US and its
potential Asian rival.
“Everybody in Asia wants the US to stay engaged – and nobody wants to
live under Chinese hegemony,” he told the Telegraph.
“But nobody wants the US-China relationship to become contested, because
nobody wants to have to choose between the two, especially not Australia …
We love US primacy if it is uncontested as we have enjoyed it for the past 40
years – that is the era that is ending as China power grows.” Mr
Obama said the US would seek to co-operate with China but would speak
candidly about human rights and territorial disputes.
Amid growing political pressure over the nation’s stalled growth and
spiralling debt – which has now topped $US15 trillion – Mr Obama said Asia
marked “the future” and was crucial to restoring America’s ailing
economy.
A US Congressional committee is drawing up plans to cut at least $1.5 trillion
in spending over the next decade, including $500 billion from defence on top
of $450 billion in reduced Pentagon spending.
Mr Obama’s address to a special joint sitting of Australia’s Parliament
received a long ovation and was noticeably free of the heckling – by Greens
Senators – that interrupted an address by President Bush in 2003.
The plans for a bolstered military presence in Australia were strongly
supported by the Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, who invited the US to go
further and station the troops on a jointly run base.
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