Factoid of the day

StrategyPage has a summary of the renewed use of Subic and Clark by the US military

but the WTF part comes at the end of the article: the US is also invited to use the CamRanh Bay base...

These two Philippines bases were major links in the supply system that sustained American forces during the Vietnam War (1965-72). Another major logistics base in that conflict was Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. The Vietnamese have invited the United States to use Cam Ranh Bay once more because Vietnam, like most of China's neighbors, wants Americans close by as protection against growing Chinese aggression.

and China's threats to Australia aren't being welcomed either.