Barack Obama has unveiled plans to deploy 2500 Marines in northernAustraliabut insisted the move was not prompted by fear ofChina. By Jonathan Pearlman inCanberra During his first Presidential visit to Australia, Mr Obama and Julia Gillard announced an expanded military agreement under which theUS will station Marines inDarwin from next year. The deployment will expand […]
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Barack Obama to Deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia as He Says ‘We Do Not Fear China’
6/02/2012
Опубликовано в Australia, November-December 2011, Press Review, The South Pacific 
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