{"id":28775,"date":"2025-05-29T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-ramps-up-its-military-footprint-in-australia-as-tensions-with-china-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:56:54","slug":"u-s-ramps-up-its-military-footprint-in-australia-as-tensions-with-china-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u-s-ramps-up-its-military-footprint-in-australia-as-tensions-with-china-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. ramps up its military footprint in Australia as tensions with China rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, Australia<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 The U.S. is expanding its military presence in northern Australia as it looks to project power and provide a deterrence against the increasing threat of China in the Asia-Pacific. China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping is thought to have ordered his armed forces to be <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/china-taiwan-war-games-us-japan-military-alliance-south-china-sea-tension\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ready to invade<\/a><\/span> the island of Taiwan by 2027, if necessary, raising fears of a conflict that could draw in American forces.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Beijing&#8217;s expanding footprint in the region, the U.S. has seen Australia, a country located around two-and-a-half-thousand miles south of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-tariffs-china-tariffs-what-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">China<\/a><\/span>, as a key strategic partner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/04e590d0-3e9f-431f-879d-27b888208195\/thumbnail\/620x334\/c3ae65e0b4a01ecf0598c97225bd0c32\/ott-3.png?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0#\" alt=\"ott-3.png \" height=\"334\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/05\/29\/04e590d0-3e9f-431f-879d-27b888208195\/thumbnail\/620x334\/c3ae65e0b4a01ecf0598c97225bd0c32\/ott-3.png?v=0ec0a9b0c45ecf3b0dd269ffc8f350b0 1x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">U.S. Marines participate in joint military drills in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2012, the first deployment of roughly 200 U.S. Marines rotated through the country&#8217;s Northern Territory. Now it&#8217;s close to 2,500 each year. The U.S. military presence is now at its biggest since 1945 at the end of the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News gained access to a U.S. Marine Corps exercise, including Australian and Japanese allies in the rugged outback, as preparations against Chinese aggression ramps up.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise involved Australian troops playing the role of enemy combatants who attack a platoon of U.S. Marines. The drill was conducted by more than 500 U.S. Marines and over 2,000 troops in total, across an area bigger than the state of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Knowing how one another works is of the utmost importance and being ready to respond is something critical,&#8221; Major Nicholas Foust, the officer commanding the exercise with U.S. Marine Rotational Force-Darwin, told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Military experts say a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not inevitable and that China may want to avoid war, especially with the U.S. But China&#8217;s armed forces are going through an unprecedented modernization \u2014 from aircraft carriers to hypersonic missiles.<\/p>\n<p>While the key goal for the U.S. and its allies in the region is to deter any potential Chinese aggression, Brigadier Ben McLennan, commander of the Australian Defence Force&#8217;s 3rd Brigade, told CBS News that they are preparing for the worst possible outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time you commit to an exercise like this, it is a rehearsal \u2014 and you treat it as your last opportunity to do so before war arrives,&#8221; he said. &#8220;A rehearsal for a war the likes of which we haven&#8217;t seen since the Second World War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/holly-williams\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Holly  Williams<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Holly Williams is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in the network&#8217;s CBS London bureau. 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