HIMARS to Chunmoo: Allies flex military muscle as China looms large

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The opening of Talisman Sabre coincides with the US Navy commissioning USS Canberra in Sydney on Saturday. The littoral combat ship, built by Australian shipbuilder Austal at its Alabama shipyard, is the only US warship to be named after a foreign capital. Next week, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin will join Defence Minister Richard Marles to observe some of the exercises when he travels to Brisbane with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for the annual AUSMIN talks. This year’s iteration of Talisman Sabre is the largest yet, with personnel drawn from 13 nations, including France, Indonesia, Japan, New...