Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that the United States is considering stationing B-1 and B-52 bombers in Australia in the face of rising tensions in the South China Sea. The US-Australia collaboration is representative of America's continued interest in maintaining stability in the region by counterbalancing China’s military buildup, say analysts. “It is part of an overall rebalancing of military forces to the region,” says Dr. Michael Auslin of the American Enterprise Institute, in a phone interview with The Christian Science Monitor. China’s militarization of the South China Sea recently prompted the US to conduct what it called a routine patrol of the region with the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier, as well as one cruiser and two destroyers. ...
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