Asia Minute: U.S. military is building new fuel storage tanks in the Indo-Pacific

TL;DR - Work is underway on a U.S. military fuel storage facility in the Asia-Pacific. It’s nowhere near Red Hill — in fact it’s more than 5,000 miles away.

If you look at a map of Australia, on the northern part of the country, there’s a portion that bumps out into the water — sometimes called the “Top End” of Australia’s Northern Territory.

It’s the closest part of the country to Southeast Asia — a few hundred miles from the southern part of the Indonesian archipelago.

January 25, 2022: Asia Minute: U.S. military is building new fuel storage tanks in the Indo-Pacific, Hawaiʻi Public Radio