Subject: Re: New defense partnership with Indonesia announced
To a degree, I would agree with you on that. The obvious location to increase US basing is in the Philippines. The Big O, and Biden, did that.

Indonesia is quite remote from China. But ideally located for anther Trump extortion racket.

Which is why you should read the entire thing. Indonesia is to be the home of asymmetric naval warfare; autonomous subs and the like. 25% of the world's goods flow through the Straits of Malacca, including massive tonnage heading to and from China.

If I wanted to forward deploy my Hands off, China toys...Indonesia is where they would go.

This is a brilliant move by the administration.