America Joins Australian Defense Initiative

With concern over the growing strategic importance of the Pacific, Australia and America has signed a treaty of Pacific cooperation. Although intended to maintain the political stability of the region, and by extension transpacific shipping, the treaty also involves contingencies for military defense, allowing the two countries to exert authority far beyond their actual territorial claims. With such a vast area now being under Australo-American "protection," it is surely only a matter of time before those contingencies will be put to the test.